There was also a software to burn images in the disc. 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.”
You know how you can use a magnifying glass to burn stuff with sunlight?
It was basically that but with lasers.
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.
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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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.
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.
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
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.
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?
💿💿🥜🌰
Next tell her that that text we were waiting on was made with only numbers on our phones. Her brain my come out her nose.
