Speaking of CDs, remember when they first came out they were packed in "long" boxes cause retailers thought they'd be too easy to steal otherwise?

The tree huggers went bat**** and soon after they came simply wrapped in cellophane.

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Long boxes were never really a thing with European CDs.
All the ones I had were American imports.

The very first cd's I ever bought were Def Leppard Pyromania and Thompson Twins Into The Gap, I bought them at Licorice Pizza. Both came in the big boxes. Hey man Into the Gap was a good album. LOL

I think the first long boxes I ever had were Judas Priest's Sin After Sin (After spending 6 years trying to find it on vinyl because I didn't own a CD player) and Alice Cooper's From The Inside.
Oh and Slayer's Reign in Blood because it wasn't released on CD in Britain until years after it originally came out.

I remember having almost equivalent of my ipod capacity in 2 cd wallets with cds that looked like this:

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I remember burning everything i could find on the net into blank cds, music, anime, dreamcast emulators etc.

But the old technology i miss the most is the VCR's
i had everything on Vhs tapes and i sorta used it as a primitive Tivo to record stuff on TV and stuff like that..

i actually tried buying one recently at wallmart and it was more expensive than the dvd players and they didn't even have them in stock!
All they had was the Vcr/dvd/blueray expensive crap that no one uses and is still way too overpriced.

I remember when the first DVD-RW's came out.
The shop I worked at were selling them at £15 each.

I got one of these personal CD player thingys for my 12th birthday. It was designed to be jog-proof and to be used 'on the go'. Even by personal CD player standards it was ridiculously bulky. I was delighted to get it though as it meant not having to put up with cassettes getting destroyed on me.

http://thumbs4.picclick.com/d/l400/p...MAN-ESA-45.jpg

My very first stereo was a Ferguson boombox like this. As a kid I thought it was badass.

http://i567.photobucket.com/albums/s...-head/3T18.jpg

A lot of this is kinda cracking me up. This was my first portable music when I was a kid and it only picked up AM.

http://ephemera.typepad.com/.a/6a00d...4bd2970c-300wi

Here's mine albeit a later model..

http://i94.photobucket.com/albums/l9...8051624292.jpg