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.
If I am correctly informed… it is not history…
I miss Nero. It was a great at burning things.
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Ahh, all you sweet summer children and your fancy CD burners and MP3 players…
I remember the OG “mixtapes”. Sitting on our bedroom floors for hours with a 9V 6 transistor radio and listening to the local rock and roll station hoping to hear your favorite group’s new song being announced by the DJ so you could press the play and record buttons on that cheap portable cassette player to record the latest songs. All just so you could have a shitty mono recording to listen to.
If your Girlfriend gave you a tape filled with all her favorite music, it was like both of you were half ways down the aisle and headed for marriage. It was that serious.
I am not that old and I remember doing that.
Yeah, keep telling that to yourself ;)
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I remember me as a child recording my own radio shows, with me doing all the announcements, reading articles from magazines or just talking nonsense and then recording music from the radio for the music in between. Good times.
Did you have that multicolor kid’s radio with an attached microphone? Remember those being very popular.
Oh my god yes, that’s exactly the one I had as a kid!
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
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.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
And the icon was a picture of a burning colloseum, incase the name went over your head.
I had that same eye opening moment with Tinder.
Cos you spend half the time rubbing someone’s wood?
Because you have tinder and you swipe your matches.
ooohhh!
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
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
and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
And neither could my parents as it turned out
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.
Edit: i don’t mean the label side but the data side. But has similiar problems with supported players.
The first laptop I bought had a DVD burner which came with support for LightScribe, which required discs with a special coating. You designed a cover, put the disc in your drive upside down and it would burn the image into the disc. You could only do grayscale as far as I know, but I still thought it was pretty neat at the time.
It was pretty neat but if you kept the CDs in your car they basically fell apart.
Those need special blank cd’s
Ay. Light Bright
It’s called cdimage
And it worked for me: https://lemmy.world/post/30813500I am linking through lemmy.world because SDF isn’t doing all too well.
there is very little support for lemmy at sdf. one of the nodes has had a hardware failure and will need to be replaced. the nodes are also in need of new fans and larger disks, but that requires support.
I think the one i used was named different? Maybe i’ll try again, thanks!
You know what would be magic? If you could boot Linux from that. Should theoretically be possible, no?
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I had one of those “LightScribe” burners. I think I only used it a couple of times because the media was much more expensive than standard CD-R and I didn’t care enough to get good at it. It was just a slow extra step when I’m trying to burn a quick cd before I head to the bus stop in the morning.
Funnily, burning the lightscribe cd was faster than the first mp3 player I had. My first mp3 player was a Creative something or other with 32mb of storage. Adding the ~15 songs you could fit on it took fucking donkey’s years.
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.
No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Spicy rainbow fires are the best.
Personalising CDs with 5 seconds in a microwave was always entertaining. I even got some tracks to “play” afterwards.
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.
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?
The other day my cousin asked what blu-ray was. I felt so old.
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.
Pysical is not the opposite of digital.
Analog is the opposite of digital.
A CD is a digital medium, just like an SSD is.
If you want a rotating disk medium which is analog, you would need to get a vinyl.
Haha yeah, I think SpiceDealer’s comment inadvertently supports the notion it’s meant to dispel.
But to be fair, the media world has been using the word “digital” to mean “electronic delivery” for a long time.
I posted a scathing reply to their post, but then lost confidence in it when it occurred to me they might have been joking, like deliberately getting it wrong to join in the joke OP posted.
Meh.
You didn’t experience the thrill of taping music from radio stations.
Nor the compulsion to swear out loud when the radio guy started talking 10 seconds before the song ending
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I remember burning cds with songs I got from limewire back in the day. Takes me back
The secrets will not be exposed… Unless you are willing to join the black parade…
When I was a young boy
my father, took me
to see a sex show it was awesome
My.father burned thousands of CDs and DVDs to coax the old gods into giving him money. It took him 5 years to realize he was literally breaking even wasting hours a day. We had a hell of a dvd collection tho
That’s definitely peak dad energy. My dad would burn literally everything we rented, and later got through the mail from Netflix, even if he didn’t watch or care about the movie.
I think it just makes them feel powerful, rubbing it in the FBI warnings face.
Not with fire. With concentrated light. We had to focus on that shit.
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.
I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
Adobe played a huge role in creating a generation of hackers by charging 2x the price of a car for a photoshop license.
That and hatred for the drummer of Metallica.
