The Picard Maneuver@startrek.website to Microblog Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoYou had to hold it up to a candle.startrek.websiteimagemessage-square319fedilinkarrow-up11.46Karrow-down136
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minus-squarelugal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up112·11 months agoThere was a program call “Nero burning ROM”. A pun I understood much later
minus-squarePurplebeanZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up60arrow-down1·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoMy pa had it on his PC and by then it looked archaic.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·11 months agoWhat is the pun in NERO omg
minus-squarebitwaba@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up49·edit-211 months 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-up13·11 months agoand legend had it as he watched Rome burn, he played the fiddle
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months 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-down1·11 months agoNero, the Roman emperor, burned Rome.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 months agoYou made me say oh my god out loud and facepalm pretty harddd…
minus-squareඞmir@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months 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-up6·11 months agoGo look up the loading screen for Nero. It was a burning colosseum. Such a cool branding job.
minus-squareflooppoolf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agodeleted by creator
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·edit-211 months 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-up1·11 months 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.