Serial experiments Lain, Strawberry Panic, Lovely Complex? I would say around 18 years ago, at least that's when I was watching them.

Aren't read-write disks fairly unstable from a longevity perspective?

I hope you used a special soft tip pen to label them.

I had a binder full of video CD's because my laptop only had a CD-RW drive. It usually took two disks to hold an entire film.

Lain. Nice.

I don't think it is legal for a pirate to have handwriting that good.

Planetes is a goddamn masterpiece!

12x re-writable DVDs would be from the mid 00s.

2006ish?

Fansubs?

24 years? the brand of the dvdr is unfamilar but lain is from 98 🤔

Those DVD’s look fly.

Halt,, citizen!!

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If you fail to report, a division of ICE run by a cloned Dog The Bounty Hunter will be dispatched, 10 years will be added to your sentence and at least 2 generations of your offspring will be mandated to pay Corporate Reparations and will forfeit all their intellectual property rights to the Mega Yachts for Emotionally Stunted Yuppies charity.

You agreed to these terms when you were born and signed the license agreement by crying in the Pepsicola Maternity Ward.

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Good old Lain, I should rewatch that.

You should probably rescue those before they rot. Disk rot is a thing

Lain. I want to see it again to not understand it again.

And has likely lost its data integrity through time :(

And to think Nana manga still haven’t returned from hiatus after all this time……

DVDs? Cant be that old.

Hell yeah! You should check for a lot of those if they're available still via the normal means. A lot of the old and good fansubs are just outright missing, probably because a lot of people did what you did and then life happened and the availability fell along with the demand for fansubs for new series.

For example, a lot of the big fansub names are gone, and their seeds moved on. I know the content, for a lot of fansubs still exists in forms like you have here, but it isn't available on the internet and is at risk for bitrot and being lost media.

See if you can find ways to seed stuff for a while. I know at least I have a couple dozen stalled out 0 availability of them that I'm just waiting to magically appear online one day, that I myself will then try to seed. Maybe you'll make somebody's day, or year.

Edit: also, some fansubs that are lost end up being the only sources of the original version. It's rare, but it does happen.

I uh... Have several of those legit, after watching them other ways