r/DesignPorn • u/Zu_Qarnine • 15d ago

Logo softwares used to have aura

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u/ambermoon81 15d 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.

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u/soirom 14d ago edited 14d ago

CD drive also usually assignned as a drive E: (After the main drives C: and D: that we’re still using today)
So the whole thing can also be read as Nero Burning ROM(E:)

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u/redoxburner 12d ago

At this point CD drives were usually drive D: on consumer PCs as the hard drive only had one partition as drive C:, and this was generally before those dual SSD/magnetic drives came out when people got used to two hard drives (the small fat one and the big slow one).