Help me out here
Nero Burning Rom was a popular program for burning CDs
The best name for a piece of software I’ve ever read lol
Omfg I just got that 🤦
I used Nero. Is this person I’m supposed to be aware of in the picture named Nero or something?
I’m no lepidopterist, but from context I’d guess that it is indeed Nero.
A much maligned Roman emperor, Nero supposedly (but almost certainly not actually) haughtily played some instrument or the other during the Great Fire of Rome.
Hence, “burning a CD-ROM” is easily associated with him even though the story is almost certainly not true and “ROM” (read only memory) was the suffix of the CDs that COULDN’T be burned 🤷
Honestly, this was some A-tier wordplay, especially considering that the company who made it is was German.
Absolutely!
Is that last bit a dig at German humour?
I hear it’s not a laughing matter.
I’m a school bus driver and I’m not even joking when I say I blew my kids’ minds with a burned CD the other day. My daughter asked me to make one of the KPop Demon Hunters soundtrack. One kid asked how I got it on CD and when I showed him a burned disc complete with sharpie label his response was just, “Wait you can do that?!”
Made me feel old as hell.
“We used to mark them ‘summer mix’ and put them in a soft case full of them in the car, which was the style at the time”
You would change your disc at a red light, as tradition tells
Pah, I had a CD-changer for 6 discs!
Is that the thing that holds the phone mount?
No no, the disc changer was in the glove box. The radio had a cassette player. I used it with one of those cassette adapters to connect my iRiver mp3 player.
Not having lived through it is fine; being unable to google a couple of words is just virtue signalling how lazy you are, especially considering this is probably coming from someone who’s glued to their phone all day.
Bruh it’s clearly meant to be a joke lmao
Calm down gramps
Back in my day we burned a lot of CDs…
Funny to think that the same number of drives would fit into maybe 1/4 of this height if made in the slim form factor.
“Look grandpa, I found this box full of save icons in your old stuff”
And omg soo much retro porn which is now banned in the us
Winamp! (Winamp!) Winamp! It really whips the lamma’s ass!
;)
It would take less time to just search “burning cds” than even posting this.
Did anyone ever have a Lightscribe burner? I always wanted one. It seemed pretty dope being able to etch a label onto the disc with the same device that wrote data to it.
Yes. It was neat, but actually sucked because the contrast was so low. Switched back to Sharpie after a few
Good ol alcohol 120%
I’ve still got CDs I burned back in 08. Nowadays its blurays
There was a DVD in between you know
Yeah went there too, but all of those have not survived here
Wait until they hear we ripped them after burning them
Never. The audio equivalent of “Needs More JPEG”
have a stack of blanks. no cd drive. almost bought a usb burner but thumb drive is better. cds only hold like 600mb
I still have the DVDs and CDs I burnt back in the day. I will never give up my music
See, I had a 6 cd rack for burning but I never learned why it was called burning. Every time I asked in irc, they said something to the effect of “head to the doctor, you should get that looked at.” Any kind lemming care to elucidate me?
Edit: finally I can rest in peace (and go to the doctor)
My understanding was that it had to do with the laser in the CD/DVD/bluray drive “burning” the data onto the disc.
Sure! It’s called “burning a CD” because you are literally burning it. You are using a laser to burn or etch a texture into the CD that can be read by the lasers in other CD drives.
Anyone more knowledgeable than me is more than welcome to add details and correct whatever I got wrong. I know the basic concept, but I’m no CD engineer.
Edit: The original explanation I had here was that a laser burns pits in the CD material but that was wrong, apparently only pressed discs use physical pits in the material. The laser used in a home CD burner changes the color of a photosensitive dye on a recordable CD. So I think actually “burning” is due to a misunderstanding (which I had until I just looked it up) of how a home CD writer works.
Huh, you learn something new everyday. Thanks!
No you don’t! You can’t make me!!! I’LL NEVER LEARN!!!
continues being American
