Published 3 Mar, 2021
I don t find many CD-Rs in the gutter anymore. Time was, the streets would glitter with home-burned CDs and DVDs that were either lost or thrown away. With the rise of broadband and fall of physical media, now everything s up in a cloud. It is good that we ve largely ended one form of litter. But I kinda miss them. For a while, I d fish these CD-Rs and DVD-Rs out the gutter to see what they held. It wasn t
all porn.
I m not sure when I started checking out gutter CDs, but old photos show I was in full swing in 2014. I remember even then being surprised by how many CD-Rs and DVD-Rs I was still finding years after the introduction of USB drives, downloads, and smartphones.