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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

You had to hold it up to a candle.

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You had to hold it up to a candle.

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The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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    There was a program call “Nero burning ROM”. A pun I understood much later

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      Well fuck me, that’s a name I haven’t heard for close to 20 years and it didn’t twig until just now.

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        My pa had it on his PC and by then it looked archaic.

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      Ah fuck, I remember Nero, and I know why it is called Nero (because Nero and the burning of rome), but I never connect the ROM to ROME.

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        The logo was literally the colosseum on fire…

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          Oh I know about that, just the connection of Rom and Rome.

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            Ah, ok. Makes even more sense knowing that Nero is a German company, and the city is literally spelled Rom in German.

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        Exact same sentiment. Mind blown

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      What is the pun in NERO omg

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        Emperor Nero is rumored to have cause the great fire of Rome in 64 AD that burned over 2/3rds of the city

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          and legend had it as he watched Rome burn, he played the fiddle

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            *lyre

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              Pans on fire.

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          Did he cause the fire, or did a fire happen while he was the leader and he completely ignored it?

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            Yes

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        Nero, the Roman emperor, burned Rome.

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          You made me say oh my god out loud and facepalm pretty harddd…

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          ok I never thought I would need this info about CD burning but this is genuinely a cool revelation about my childhood

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            Go look up the loading screen for Nero. It was a burning colosseum. Such a cool branding job.

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          deleted by creator

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      And now I just got it too lol

      E: never let it be said I am not slow on the uptake. 🙄

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      Core memory unlocked!

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      I still have a copy of Nero Express on a DVD in my bookcase.

      Not that I use it very much - if I ever need to burn an iso Ill use xfburn or brasero or something like that, as I run Linux now. It’s more if I need to burn data onto disk’s to get it off an older PC.

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        Adaptec Easy CD Creator. Then I got a copy of Nero from a friend and never looked back.

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      And these things called optical drives.

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