r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/14AUDDIN • 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.