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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Neo Ehproque@jwildeboer I'm not a German or English native, but after years of using it it dawned on me that Rome was pronounced like ROM and how genius this was, can't agree more on it being the best product name ever
mirabilos@jwildeboer @ehproque as a German native, the ROM in CD-ROM is with a short open o, the city of Rom with a long semi-closed o, so the pun didn’t translate to voice (I always said burning ROM not burning Rom) but still present