The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoYou had to hold it up to a candle.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square318fedilinkarrow-up11.46Karrow-down136
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minus-squarelugal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up113·2 years agoThere was a program call “Nero burning ROM”. A pun I understood much later
minus-squarePurplebeanZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·2 years agoWell fuck me, that’s a name I haven’t heard for close to 20 years and it didn’t twig until just now.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoMy pa had it on his PC and by then it looked archaic.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·2 years agoWhat is the pun in NERO omg
minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·edit-22 years agoEmperor Nero is rumored to have cause the great fire of Rome in 64 AD that burned over 2/3rds of the city
minus-squarefunkless_eck@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 years agoand legend had it as he watched Rome burn, he played the fiddle
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoDid he cause the fire, or did a fire happen while he was the leader and he completely ignored it?
minus-squareHappySashimi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down1·2 years agoNero, the Roman emperor, burned Rome.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·2 years agoYou made me say oh my god out loud and facepalm pretty harddd…
minus-squareඞmir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agook I never thought I would need this info about CD burning but this is genuinely a cool revelation about my childhood
minus-squareStarbuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years agoGo look up the loading screen for Nero. It was a burning colosseum. Such a cool branding job.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·2 years agodeleted by creator
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-22 years agoAnd now I just got it too lol E: never let it be said I am not slow on the uptake. 🙄
minus-squareanonymouse@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoAnd these things called optical drives.
There was a program call “Nero burning ROM”. A pun I understood much later
Well fuck me, that’s a name I haven’t heard for close to 20 years and it didn’t twig until just now.
My pa had it on his PC and by then it looked archaic.
What is the pun in NERO omg
Emperor Nero is rumored to have cause the great fire of Rome in 64 AD that burned over 2/3rds of the city
and legend had it as he watched Rome burn, he played the fiddle
Did he cause the fire, or did a fire happen while he was the leader and he completely ignored it?
Yes
Nero, the Roman emperor, burned Rome.
You made me say oh my god out loud and facepalm pretty harddd…
ok I never thought I would need this info about CD burning but this is genuinely a cool revelation about my childhood
Go look up the loading screen for Nero. It was a burning colosseum. Such a cool branding job.
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And now I just got it too lol
E: never let it be said I am not slow on the uptake. 🙄
Core memory unlocked!
And these things called optical drives.