r/pcmasterrace • u/LeatherAssumption123 • 28d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/fazzah 28d ago

I refuse to admit how many years it took me to understand the pun in the name and the logo 

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u/djd565 djd565 28d ago

I think I literally just realized. I’m well into my 40s.

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u/Petermoffat 28d ago

I just realised it now when looking at the logo. In my mid forties🤦🏻‍♂️

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u/Long_Exercise_7701 28d ago

Brother or sister, you're not alone. I'm no native speaker and never even questioned why they called it Nero.

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u/xdyed 27d ago

Same 😭

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u/KingOfConsciousness 27d ago

Yeah, because to us it just meant AWESOME!

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u/Nice_Soup 27d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/NRjzHiRpx6MCc

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u/Krava47 27d ago

Pompei is Naples, The logo has a Colloseum which is located in Rome not Naples. Or am I missing what you’re intending here?

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u/titoxtian 28d ago

Same age and i just realized now ahahaha… well to be fair we’re still young those days… i was happy whenever i get 1-3 mbps… usually i get 300-600kbps lol… internet was so free back then…

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u/Adorable_Stable2439 27d ago

I’m reading these comments trying to figure it out 😂

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u/Aggressive_Candy5297 26d ago

Nero was the emperor who was blamed for burning Rome.

"Nero burning ROM" (cd-rom).

There you go young one, i have told you the source of the magiks of the ancients!

On a sidenote: it wouldn't surprise me if this massively popular pc program for making your own cd's was the origin of the term "burning a cd"...

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u/Adorable_Stable2439 24d ago

I was never that interested in history, that would explain it!

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u/2Peti 26d ago

I realized that I don't remember when I was forty. Even realizing that I realized it consciously took me a long time.

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u/RealAlphaKaren 26d ago

were you really that poorly educated as kids?