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You had to hold it up to a candle. (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world
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[–] stoly@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

The first commercially available CD-Rs were produced in 1988.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R

Tori Amos became popular in the 90s. The term burning a CD was in common parlance by 1993. I doubt that Tori is the origin of the phrase.

[–] toddestan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD's really didn't really go mainstream until the very late 90's.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

The Sega MegaCD didn't have any copy protection because people couldn't burn their own CDs yet.