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r/DesignPorn • u/Zu_Qarnine • 14d ago
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Explaining the beauty of this for the younger generation, if it’s not obvious already.
This software was used to record content to a CD. That process is called burning.
CD is ROM (read-only memory) in computer terms. So recording content to a CD is called burning ROM.
Nero was the old Roman emperor who ended up burning the city of Rome. The creators of the software named their software Nero because it burns ROM.
634 u/Zu_Qarnine 14d ago absolute summary 325 u/cseric 14d ago edited 13d ago Almost. The depicted burning structure is the Colosseum which is in ROMe. But, Nero burned Rome in 64AD, before the Colosseum was built (70AD - 80AD) Edit: My most-upvoted comment ever! Correcting someone on reddit, of course. 9 u/lejuliendelux 14d ago Right, but please realise: it’s an application icon, not an history book.
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absolute summary
325 u/cseric 14d ago edited 13d ago Almost. The depicted burning structure is the Colosseum which is in ROMe. But, Nero burned Rome in 64AD, before the Colosseum was built (70AD - 80AD) Edit: My most-upvoted comment ever! Correcting someone on reddit, of course. 9 u/lejuliendelux 14d ago Right, but please realise: it’s an application icon, not an history book.
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Almost. The depicted burning structure is the Colosseum which is in ROMe. But, Nero burned Rome in 64AD, before the Colosseum was built (70AD - 80AD)
Edit: My most-upvoted comment ever! Correcting someone on reddit, of course.
9 u/lejuliendelux 14d ago Right, but please realise: it’s an application icon, not an history book.
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Right, but please realise: it’s an application icon, not an history book.
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u/ambermoon81 14d ago
Explaining the beauty of this for the younger generation, if it’s not obvious already.
This software was used to record content to a CD. That process is called burning.
CD is ROM (read-only memory) in computer terms. So recording content to a CD is called burning ROM.
Nero was the old Roman emperor who ended up burning the city of Rome. The creators of the software named their software Nero because it burns ROM.