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minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThe first commercially available CD-Rs were produced in 1988. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R Tori Amos became popular in the 90s. The term burning a CD was in common parlance by 1993. I doubt that Tori is the origin of the phrase.
minus-squaretoddestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months agoIn 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD’s really didn’t really go mainstream until the very late 90’s.
minus-squareInFerNo@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThe Sega MegaCD didn’t have any copy protection because people couldn’t burn their own CDs yet.
The first commercially available CD-Rs were produced in 1988.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R
Tori Amos became popular in the 90s. The term burning a CD was in common parlance by 1993. I doubt that Tori is the origin of the phrase.
In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD’s really didn’t really go mainstream until the very late 90’s.
The Sega MegaCD didn’t have any copy protection because people couldn’t burn their own CDs yet.