No, but literally burning them was fun because of the colorful flames and smoke. And the burning lungs.
Burning CD’S aside, does she think we did this to get a text? 🤣🤣 this shit was before mobile phone were a thing, and when you had one as a teen you still couldn’t afford to text for hours on end
I captured, taped, burned, and also ripped!
Dual cassette decks baby, all the C64 games you could ever wish for!
I firmly believe figuring out how to bypass the little tab on cassettes to make them writable again to impress girls with mixtapes was THE defining moment that launched the pheaker and subsequent hacker movements.
I thought it was the captain crunch whistle that started the phreaker era
being a post-millennial is not an excuse for not being able to use google
Methinks she was pretending to not (know how to) know for the bants
I don’t know why we called it burning. Fire was not involved. We could have just called it “copying.”
From the Wikipedia article.
A CD recorder writes data to a CD-R disc by pulsing its laser to heat areas of the organic dye layer. The writing process does not produce indentations (pits); instead, the heat permanently changes the optical properties of the dye, changing the reflectivity of those areas.
Yeah, like Nero … burning Rom(e).
I had a cracked copy of Nero I used to pirate Dreamcast games.
Was a pretty good hustle for a bit
Not once did I consider why it was called Nero.
It was literally called Nero Burning ROM.
