There was also a software to burn pictures in the disc via the burn patterns. There’s a open source project now but it didn’t work for me.
Wait, there’s no red laser symbol in Unicode?
Well, in a way you could say we used the equivalent of concentrated sunlight.
I had this application that would print a CD shaped stickers. I could upload and design any background, and add text with any font. It was when computers peaked.
Burning CD’S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
I still burn dvds with movies I like for them ☺️
I don’t know why we called it burning. Fire was not involved. We could have just called it “copying.”
From the Wikipedia article.
A CD recorder writes data to a CD-R disc by pulsing its laser to heat areas of the organic dye layer. The writing process does not produce indentations (pits); instead, the heat permanently changes the optical properties of the dye, changing the reflectivity of those areas.
You know how you can use a magnifying glass to burn stuff with sunlight?
It was basically that but with lasers.
Yes, with fire. The Romans originally tried it, which is what led to Nero accidentally burning down ROMe.
Never knew that was a history reference.
We Gen Z get called “the first digital kids” but I clearly remember the last days of physical and optical media. My sister and I would burn CDs with songs we would download from LimeWire.
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Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Well yes, the incantation typically involved calling upon the ghost of the Emperor Nero.
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
I totally get that. Took me a while too and then I felt so dumb, because their logo was the colosseum in flames and everything made so much sense in hindsight.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
Fun fact: It actually is kind of burning. With a laser.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R#Writing_methods
Not enough to set it on fire, but enough to change a dye from translucent to opaque.
I have not yet met a young person who doesn’t know what a CD is. I feel like the internet has pranked me.
It was them, wasn’t it? The kids. They started this rumor did they not? They’re laughing at us right now, aren’t they? They’re reading this comment and they know I fell for it.
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
But if you ask them what burning a cd is I bet they think it’s setting them on fire, not writing data to the disk.
Not me, haha my father tought me those things from a young age.
But did he show you how cool it is to microwave them?
Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
I think i’ve still never been more impressed by a program name since. you’re literally “Burning ROM”…
Oh my God
Right, only took me almost twenty years too
I’m so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it
Oh, like Rome.
On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.”
What a great era for software branding.
DUDE
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
They use AI, which feeds them some bullshit story instead.
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
Or rather didn’t particularly care, but found more fun in imagining more fantastical scenarios to entertain herself.
quite possibly, not very well versed in the social media arts
Google sucks.
I’ve been using DuckDuckGo for a decade.
Here we go with this normie shit again.
Use Startpage.
DuckDuckGo is basically just Bing with a bit more privacy and Bing search results suck too.
Dunno, ddg delivers what I need.
What do you use search engines for?
If it does was you need it to do you should definitely use it, privacy vise it’s obviously way better than google. Haven’t tried in in about 2 years, maybe the search results got better but the last time I tried it often presented me weird sites that technically contained the words I searched for but were completely irrelevant - entered the same question onto Google and immediately got me a stack overflow question that was practically the same question I had but phrased a bit differently. But as I said, maybe it’s no longer so bad as when I tried it.
For a long time I used DuckDuckGo for everything except specific error messages, because Google was better at those, but Google got more shitty and so did stack overflow, so I don’t bother much with Google anymore.
I’ve tried everything and I really really really can’t use Google. It just never gets me what I want. DDG works ok, and is usually my default because it’s fast and simple.
Recently (1 or 2 years) I’ve found Brave search to be fantastic though. You may want to disable the AI search summary (it’s better than Google’s or DDG’s ai stuff, but still ultimately ai). Now, I find myself reaching for brave search when I’m doing more serious searching. I have both DDG and Brave saved as search short cuts in librewolf. Highly recommend.
