Jan Wildeboer 😷
Nero Burning ROM will always stay in my heart as the best product name ever. This is not open for discussion.
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(For the younger generation: Burning ROM meant burning up to 650MB of data on a CD-R(W). For the even younger ones: Nero was a ROMan emperor who, according to legend, watched the city of Rome burning after he started the fire :)
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And finally, the real punchline for non-German speaking people: in the German language the city of Rome is spelled Rom. Nero/ahead software was and is a German company. Get it now? :) you are welcome! And I am deeply satisfied to witness a great disturbance in The Force. Millions of people saying “oh, shit! THAT’s why they named it Burning ROM”
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Peter Jakobs ⛵@jwildeboer I would say that's why they called it Nero, it was always supposed to burn (CD-) ROM(s) - I don't remember if other languages used "burning" (brennen) as the verb for writing data onto writable optical media anyway. I believe I heard englisch speakers say "I can cut you a CD" 🤔
You're the personified wayback machine, Jan 🤭
·J Mopp@pjakobs @jwildeboer English tends to use both 'burn' and 'cut' for CDs. 'burn' referring to the action of a laser on a blank CD, and then 'cut' from the vinyl days, bringing to mind the cutting of a groove on a record
sotolf@pjakobs @jwildeboer In Norway we use burning as well "brenne" and Rom is one of the words we use for rome as well, so the pun translated cleanly for us.
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Those were Brits, weren't they? I've seen many software products call it burning. Whether Nero coined the verb or not it's left as an exercise to the reader
@jwildeboer
Those were Brits, weren't they? I've seen many software products call it burning. Whether Nero coined the verb or not it's left as an exercise to the reader
@jwildeboer
No, the folks behind Nero were German. That's why the pun with ROM works 😉
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