[achairapart]

Also: those cd burners were 1x so it was a whole painful endless hour to burn a single CD-ROM!

[therein]

An epiphany I once had as I was waiting for that endless hour to come to an end was Nero has a logo of the Colosseum on fire. It is a circular structure, like a burning CD and it is on fire because "Nero set Rome on fire".

[tgsovlerkhgsel]

Also, the full name was "Nero Burning ROM". It came from a German company, and Rome is spelled Rom in German.

[zokier]

And if we are reminiscing Nero, these track (and others like it) might bring up some memories:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDWAmgwQvOk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yovnD-yI68U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0u39ZqQYOHM

[kayamon]

OMG I just got it after all these years.

[Waterluvian]

I realised all the rest but never that. Thanks for sharing.

[aaaaaaaaaab]

The Colosseum was built after the reign of Nero...

[cgriswald]

...on land depopulated by Nero's fire. So, if the Colosseum as a symbol of Rome and an iconic circle isn't poetic enough for you, there is also the metaphor of destruction/fire leading to creation as in "CD burning."

[aaaaaaaaaab]

While you're technically correct, you're still incorrect.

The area devastated by the Great Fire (allegedly started by Nero) was used to build Nero's Golden House (Domus Aurea) first. After his death, most of the Golden House complex was demolished and it was only then that the infilled artificial lake of the Golden House was chosen as the site for the Colosseum.

[therein]

You learn something new every day. :)

[rootsudo]

Wow.....

[RHSeeger]

To be fair, when the first 2x burners came out, you had to burn at 1x anyways to avoid a buffer underrun and a garbage disk.

[PhasmaFelis]

And you'd better not bump your desk during that time.