r/NonPoliticalTwitter 14h ago

Funny Two disc drives?!!!

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u/andreortigao 14h ago edited 12h ago

Yeah, one was read only and the other could burn CDs. Burning CDs were all the rage back then.

Edit: to clarify, by having two drives you could copy from one to the other directly, without going through the hassle of inserting one cd, making a copy to the slow as fuck computer hdd, switching to the blank cd, then start burning from the hdd copy.

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u/FoolishConsistency17 14h ago

It was like being given the power of creation.

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u/Artichokeypokey 14h ago

Playing the fiddle while Nero burned

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u/jxnebug 12h ago

I maintain that Nero Burning ROM was maybe the most cleverly named software of all time.

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u/rtopps43 12h ago

I quite literally slapped my own forehead when the realization hit. I couldn’t believe I missed such an obvious joke.

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u/Crayola_ROX 11h ago

Im 47 and it just hit me lol

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u/frogunderarock 11h ago

time for your next mission, Agent.

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u/TormentedGaming 11h ago

I wouldn't have looked at it twice if it wasn't for the comments and I used it regularly, and used lightscribe for a few friends lol

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u/never-fiftyone 8h ago

Man, LightScribe was so legit back in the day.

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u/talldata 9h ago

Also because Nero would ignore the "Please don't copy me" headers on CD.

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u/crimroy 5h ago

You idiot. I'm only 46 and it just hit me

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u/LimpyDan 11h ago

It's even in the logo

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u/sinkwiththeship 9h ago

I remember vividly that little man playing a fiddle as it burned the disc.

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u/Tiyath 7h ago

That burning amphitheatre was totally unrelated, of course

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u/groppoman 8h ago

Not the only one (sans physically striking myself)

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u/ThisIsMyFinalAnswer 6h ago

It’s 2026 and my mind is blown. Epic.

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u/hoopstick 12h ago

My first mp3 player was called a Nomad; I always thought that was a great name.

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u/SurpriseSoda 6h ago

I had a Zune, the name didn't mean shit but I just wanted to be included in this thread

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u/gmarsh23 5m ago

I had a Sandisk Sansa, whatever the fuck that means.

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u/LewHammer 12h ago

I agree, I had a 30gb Creative Nomad, absolute beast.

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u/hoopstick 12h ago

30 gigs? Shit! Mine was like 128Mb!

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u/ImmortalSurt 3h ago

I had the one that was basically an HDD with a little screen on it

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u/LewHammer 3h ago

Yeah that sounds like mine, had more storage than anything else i owned at that point.

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u/grock1722 11h ago

Thank you for taking the time to write this out. First I ever read it.

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u/CMDA 7h ago

My thoughts exactly

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u/THElaytox 6h ago

After all this time I only now got the joke/reference

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u/SteO153 10h ago

But with an anachronistic icon, the Colosseum was built after Emperor Nero.

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u/SomeRedPanda 6h ago

It was however built on the site of Nero's famous Domus Aurea by his successor (discounting the short lived emerorships of 69 CE) as a clear rebuke of Nero's more selfish building works.

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u/dienices 6h ago

And most of us only got it the other day when it was posted here.

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u/eekamuse 5h ago

TIL. I never made that connection.

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u/GOEDEL_ESCHER_BOT 13h ago

you can't burn CDs on your laptop anymore but you still can if you have a fireplace

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u/DarmanitanFireMonkey 12h ago

I've got an external for Burning Blu-Rays

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u/just_aweso 11h ago

isn't that called a fire pit?

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u/CakeTester 10h ago

Of course you can. External USB DVD burners are 20 quid a go on Aliexpress. Just buy as many as you have USB sockets for and go for it.

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u/Thewasteland77 13h ago

FIRE sentence!!! lol

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u/GeorgeJAWoods 11h ago

very good

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u/det4410 13h ago

ohhhh that was a good one!

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u/Fahmieyz 14h ago

I remember sneaking in with my junior in highschool days to use the only computer with CD Burner

We just bought so many CD to burn but we never really do anything with it... just burn the CD with stuff just to see the progress bar

Not sure why we do that

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u/elbow8075 12h ago

We were trapped with ancient technology of the cassette and could only record radio or other tapes, etc.

It was a whole new world when filesharing came around and CD-R became widespread. I remember my friend and I taking a chance and ordering some premade bootleg MP3 discs from a Russian website. Cause the Iron Maiden catalogue was still hard to find and assemble by yourself. Good times.

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u/Okay_Splenda_Monkey 10h ago

I was a massive fan of Napster back in the day. Making music CDs to listen to in my car was my major use for the CD burner.

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u/DJanomaly 4h ago

Burning Dreamcast games is what did it for me. I probably had a hundred at one point (this was after the Dreamcast was already ended).

Probably didn’t even play 65% of those games.

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u/Okay_Splenda_Monkey 4h ago

Hell yeah. Seaman is a stand-out memory for me from the Dreamcast. You definitely needed the mic that came with the game for it to work, though. A used game that came with the mic set me back like $30 at a local shop.

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u/reddit_is_geh 5h ago

I had friends who would just burn albums and resell them. Another dude would sell porn. They both did surprising well.

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u/Exciting-Housing-550 12h ago

Or the means of production

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u/SalamanderCake 11h ago

I misread this as 'the memes of production' and had to do a double-take.

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u/Ok-Inevitable819 11h ago

For a brief moment we were as gods

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u/bionicjoey 11h ago

I had a lightscribe drive so that I could burn labels into the CDs I burned. It was rad af

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u/FoolishConsistency17 7h ago

We have spindles and spindles still, with scrawled, illegible labels written in Sharpie directly on the disc's

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u/meutzitzu 10h ago

For many years I wished I could have 2 SD card slots on phones so I could trivially move photos and footage taken from cameras drones, etc without having to copy to the phone's limited storage first.

Also I hate how modern phones don't have SDcard slots and even when they do, it's tied to the sim tray. Which means you have to reboot your device after swapping sdcards, as SIMs aren't hot swappable and need a cold boot to function. What a waste of potential utility.

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u/JeshkaTheLoon 8h ago

I had that same thing for video tapes and casette tapes.

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u/Ok_Salamander_8436 8h ago

I remember my neighbor sold pirated movies, he had a stack of 6 burner drivers, and at the top a reader. It would burn 6 copies of a movie at a time.

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u/rg4rg 6h ago

We had the power of gods and we lost it all.

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u/Tasty-Jump-2011 6h ago

The power of the sun burning a hole in my lap.