Fun fact! The Laser in the burner didn’t actually burn from thermal effects, and instead caused a chemical reaction using specific wavelengths of light to activate a substrate called pthalocyanine.
This is part of why you could burn “faster”, although typically you had a higher quality burn at slower speeds as the change from one color to another via the chemical effects was more complete. This allowed weaker reading lenses to better perceive the new colors easier, and greatly increased compatibility.
I am very, very old.
“Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer
Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies
Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop
…and it was called NERO because it burnt ROM
“The ‘burn’ part is like what the climate change does, which you are familiar with.
The ‘CD’ part is like your brain, where the ‘burn’ causes microplastics to melt in a pattern that stores data.”“Now kids, can anyone tell me why the historians often say ‘CDs nutz’?”
I had to explain what a CD was to my kids the other day because I saw a CD-ROM mirror and decided to get one. We didn’t even cover what “burning” one was.
What I miss most is burning
.cuefiles with hidden tracks; you just don’t get the same high from streaming services.I downloaded a 1GB update on my phone today and it took a couple minutes. I spaced out remembering how fucking advanced it felt getting a x2 CD burner.
Then you try to do anything else with that PC while it’s writing at 300 KBps and… buffer underrun. So many coasters.
Me explaining what “Insert Disk 2 of 5” means.
What took you five disks?
I think even the Heroes of Might and Magic I played was 3 disks, and it took ages!And just yesterday I complained about having to wait over 2.5h to download and install a game over our 12 MiB / 100 megabit cable, I’m becoming spoiled…
Alcohol 120% and Daemon Tools
Nero burning ROM.
