My favourite name for any application ever is Nero.

What does Nero do?

Burns (CD) ROM!

You ever have a car cd player that plays files? You could put every song you downloaded from LimeWire onto a single disc.

I saw some post the other day by a teenaged girl, saying something along the lines of “y’all are mixing up the Challenger explosion and 9/11. There’s NO WAY teachers actually turned the classroom TVs on to watch the towers fall. You millennials didn’t watch it happen live.”

Oh girl, we absolutely watched it live.

We had to use these dammit.

I burnt a cd like 3 weeks ago, this technology isn't as archaic as you think

I miss Zip drives.

Anyone else remembers having to cook eggs to replace the ball on the mouse? It was ridiculous.

My mother just gave me the walkman I had in high school, which I guess was in a box somewhere in her house. It still works, and in it was a cassette I taped off the radio

The Old Magic Will not be Discussed with Children of New

Jeez... I'd record on a cassette the top 20 from the radio on friday nights!!

“Ripping CDs” was a concerning term for non-technical friends even back then. I had to assure them it wouldn’t ruin their discs. It does sound more violent than it really is.

My car is a 2001 and has a CD player. Normally, this would preclude playing phone music (without that FM transmitter bullshit, at least), but this CD player was built to accommodate a 6-CD changer in the trunk, and you can buy a little gadget that plugs into the port for this and allows an aux jack to feed audio into the player. This worked great for me until my latest phone which has no audio port. My USB-C to 1/8" jack technically works, but the volume is way too low. So I'm back to burning CDs for my car.

“Press play on tape one.”

It was 2002. Was going on a 1 year assignment to Australia.

Spent almost 24 straight hours feeding CD after CD into my fancy 6x reader, ripping and converting to MP3. Brought my whole 5' high tower of music on the plane in a harddrive.

Almost 25 years later(!), same direcory has been added to and copied to a hosted VPS from which I stream.

When I was 15 I bought a CD burner for my PC. This was circa 1999 and Napster. It cost about $250 (which is a little over $500 in 2026) and it had to be installed and in a more complex fashion beyond plug USB and let's drivers auto install. I was selling custom CDs for $5 with case inserts and paid off the burner in about a month. Then someone snitched on me in school and eventually burners started becoming standard on all new machines

I think burning CDs is a hate crime. They should be loved, and maybe given better wigs

They're burning to see deez nuts! Got 'em!

There was a day when you inserted a CD into your computer for the last time and you didn't even realise. Sad when you think about it.

https://youtu.be/_2W8kCk1qnU?is=yj6x80pIcbp5huhA

It’s slang for using Nero burning ROM

Circa 2017, I build my first desktop computer, I get the cheapest disc drive money can buy. Since then I've used it to burn one(1) CD. Any software disc I've tried using with it was too broken and out of date, leading me to download the driver instead.

I've tried using a friend's game disc on it, assuring them that Wine for Linux supports 16-bit Windows games. Turns out they dropped that support months prior.

It now stands its silent vigil, waiting for its purpose to be truly fulfilled.

I'm actually considering going back to doing this.. just with blurays.
My data hoarding illness is getting out of hand and m-disks are starting to look attractive to me.