Mine was probably FCKGW-RHQQ2-i forget the rest of the key.

Last week for me. I burned a FreeDOS 1.4 CD to install it on my recently acquired Pentium 4 desktop.

I’ll go burn a cd right meow. Idgaf.

~10 years ago i bought one of those sony cd players with the giant carousel that holds like 200 discs. i probably spent a week burning entire discographies.

I still have a spool of 100 fresh discs plus a dozen RWs.

that day is yet to come.

I still do it though.

I also just ripped a CD last night.

Does it have to be a CD? Can't it be a DVD?

It was Massive Attack Mezzanine and the cd is still in my old car for all I know.

I burned a Blu-ray like 2 weeks ago. I also routinely burn CDs because my relatively new car still has a player built in (though I think in the last 3 years, Subaru got rid of it on newer models)

My old car has a cd drive and really good speakers, and I have an old Linux computer with a cd/dvd drive, and cds are really cheap, and I pirate music, so the last time I burnt a cd was yesterday, and not out of novelty but because its the only way I can listen to music in the car.

I will probably burn another cd in the future, but ig you never know, lmao.

without even realizing it

staring intensely at the CD-R drive

"Come on baby, you've got at least one more in you!"

Mine was "Irene's boot CD" so I could reset my friends windows 10 admin password he forgot.

Jokes on you, I just bought an old ass dell optiplex. That shit came with a cd drive. I actually didn't even check to see if it would burn tho. And I don't have a CD player. But I could! Probably...

speak of CDS (and optical media/physical media?) Fun fact: there are still Video games/Music (even as new as 2025 and soon 2026) distributed in CDS,DVDS and vinyl.
so optical media/physical media are not Dying anytime soon.
(unless you count Blu-rays/Cartridges too,but its only mainly used as a download script on consoles though)

Would have been circa 2006, a fully loaded Windows XP SP2 + hotixes all-in-one installation CD, because I had to reinstall XP on my and friends and family I did tech support for every 6 to 9 months. Otherwise it would gum up and start having unfixable performance or outright faults.

I saw Vista on the horizon and said fuck that shit. Created an Ubuntu install bootable USB drive and dropped all tech support. I can probably count on one hand the number of times I’ve had to install Linux from scratch. I use Arch btw.

Fuck this sharpie ad. And fuck donald trump

A university elective, Games programming. Had an open ended "make a game and write report on how it shows the learning outcomes of the unit".

I made a tiny game, just basic triangles shooting squares at each other on the ps1. I developed and tested with an emulator, but to demo for grading I burnt it to a CD and brought in my ps1

CD - About 8 years ago for plop boot manager, which I last used a few months ago.
DVD - 3 Years ago for a PS2 game, but now I use mx4sio.
Blu-ray - A few months ago to jailbreak a ps5.

Me, burning my last CD for a school project: “I am for sure never doing this again” checkmate atheists

It wasn't that long ago. I've been trying Linux distros on my old laptop that can't boot from the USB drive.

Yeah it was like maybe a few months ago when Fit For An Autopsy came out with their new CD. When the next one comes out, I'm gonna do it again.

I burned a CD a few weeks ago to listen to in my truck.

It was probably some crap you would put on a flash drive since I didn't have a flash drive at the time.

Just yesterday I burned a cd to listen to in our 2004 corolla. Pretty sure it wasn't the last.

I'm still burning DVDs of my pirated movies I downloaded

Last CD I burned was about a month ago, "As in Gardens, So in Tombs" by ...And Oceans. My car only has a CD player but pretty decent speakers, perfect for the road.

Probably Ubuntu 20.04 before I figured out how to use USB sticks.

a bootleg copy of windows XP to downgrade from vista on a weak laptop

I wouldn't bet on it, I just brought an old windows XP 32 bit back up and running just the other day because it didn't support anything but CD and network boot probably DVD too but I didn't check because all I had was blank CD's I had to install some odd Linux because nothing else would fit on the CD and run 32bit.

I can't know for sure, but probably a game for Dreamcast. The last CD-R spool I bought has been my office door stopper for years and years now. Verbatim brand, 2/3rd remain of a 50 pack.

I burned some mix cds for a 90s themed birthday party a few months ago. Those CDRs had been sitting in a spindle in my attic for 20 years and still worked!

Never have, I didn't get into Linux ISOs until they needed a DVD for capacity anyway and then shortly after I moved onto USB booting.

Pretty sure my last burn was a tool album. Pretty sure it was 10000 Days.

I could go burn another one right now. Flash drives are just easier and less wasteful.

I remember when: 2017. Burned the latest South Park season to DVD for my sister's boyfriend at the time because they didn't have internet nor a flash drive handy.

I can't remember the last CD, but I burned a boot disk for Mint Cinnamon onto a DVD-R not long ago.

It was a version of Ubuntu Server. I don't know what one I think 2012?

Yeah, probably some PS2 game, or a elfboot for it

I thought that point in time had passed for me but a friend of mine is a bit of a technophobe and I wanted to share an extremely rare music album with him. So I burned another CD a few weeks ago... good thing I decided to keep my Blu-ray combo drive for just such an occasion.

I was having a slow day at work and stumbled onto some old blank CD-Rs. I burned a few Symphony X CDs for my friend. This was in like 2022.

I made a 15th anniversary "mix tape" on a CD like, a couple months ago? And they're useful in my car, so ... that's probably not the last time.

Although! Aside from music, the last use might be in high school when I used to sell bootleg anime to rich kids at the school. Lol

No, I still do this for our sega dreamcast.

It was porn. Shameful, unexplainable porn.

I didnt destroy it either it just went in a bin somewhere after my last big move. I wish I could see the face of whichever future hobby tech-archeologist finds it.

I literally burned a copy of xp pro retail onto one of these exact discs last week. The old disc was also a Sony, but it was off centre and would vibrate the shit outta the drive and not read properly.

Funny that genA, or maybe genZ even, doesn't understand what "burn" a cd is. They might think we set them on fire or smt..

I burned the soft mod dvd for my xbox, but that was 8 years ago. I’m thinking about using some M-disc as another offline backup for my server.

And you never knew it was the last time… that’s the weird part.

It was a Linux ISO. I didn’t care. I was one of those weirdos that used minidisc. I miss minidisc terribly and I do not understand why.

It was most likely the album Blueshift by the band Splashdown. The album was never actually released for sale, and it's one of the most amazing things I've ever heard, so I was always burning copies of it for people.

Of course now the whole album is on YouTube.

I might have CDs and CD-ROMs I burned 20 years that are still good, meanwhile some webpages and websites have gone away.

Backups. Probably an entire laptop before a rebuild. Probably to install Ubuntu.

Not as often CDs but I burn enough DVDs, dual layer DVDs, and Blu-ray disks that I have to purchase 25-100 count spindles multiple times a year.

One day, you inscribed a clay tablet for the last time without even realizing it.

I have never burned a cd

7 or 8 years ago. Backing up the document folder on the computer.

My car has a cd player, so I still burned them. bought a new pc case and it doesn't have a bay for it anymore. i'm a bit sad now. I have the thing on my desk, but can't use it.

48x lightscribe cd/dvd burner 🫡

MP3 CD for my car was probably my last one.

I haven't in a while but I can still see the value

no the last time i burned a CD was for kenza by khaled because i could only find the full album in good quality on CD

Six months ago.

I burned some CDs for our apartment manager's husband a couple years ago.

Mine was 30 CDs at the end of high school containing a video of the photo compilation from the class album.

If you own a Sega Dreamcast built before like December 1999, it runs burned CDs. Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation as well

Maybe for you, but not for me. I got to have my Internet Archive software on my 98, and sometimes dameon does not want to work

this is the type of nostalgia I don't get. I don't miss it one bit. good riddance.

Probably last year working on my retro PC build. For another person though, that is a different story.

I still have a bunch of DVDs here for planned backups, I've never used

Ok, not a CDROM, and yeah, I can't remember what my last one was...
Probably some Linux ISO