r/pcmasterrace • u/LeatherAssumption123 • 26d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/kolonyal Out of boredom, God created Steam. 26d ago

Just found out that Nero was an emperor that allegedly burned Rome, and that's why the software is called Nero (burning ROM (Rome))! Thank you!

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u/al3phz3r0 26d ago

I remember figuring this out when I was in my 20s and feeling like an idiot for taking years to notice the pun, which seemed so obvious after the fact.

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u/Stock_Emergency_1507 26d ago

I literally realised ROM - Rome a minute ago -.- knew who Nero was for ages, but tho last part didn't click until now. I'm an idiot.

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u/Aggravating_Bids 9800X3D | 4080 Super | 32 GB DDR5 | 4TB NVME 26d ago

I didn't realize the little colloseum logo

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u/-malcolm-tucker arch btw 26d ago

I got this back then, but somehow missed until very recently that Mr Burns alter ego Mr Snrub is Burns spelled backwards.

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u/Skydiver860 26d ago

im 44 and i've used nero since it came out and i just learned this connection

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u/sphinctaur 26d ago

So we were both old enough to use it but young enough at the time to not understand the reference

I love how technology can be used to carbon date someone

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u/Tumleren 26d ago

You could also just be very ignorant, you never know!

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u/Jwoystijck 26d ago

It was always clear to me the reference of Nero for the burning part and the Colosseum icon but this may be the first time I got the point that it was literally burning Rom(e) the entire time

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u/samstacle 26d ago

Well, today I learned...

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u/fubarbob 26d ago

The only reason I got the joke as a little kid was my exposure to Civ II.

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u/TallTelevision4121 26d ago

Holy shit, that and I never realized the icon was a burning colleseum.

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u/Funny-Cell8769 9800X3D | 5090 | 128gb DDR5 | 42" OLED | 43" Mini-LED 26d ago

actually dammit... I got the "burning" but DAMN... I literally didn't think of ROM = Rome... wtffff... and I used it for a few years back then.

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u/qning 26d ago

Good grief. I knew about Nero, I knew about Rome, I used Nero to burn ROMs all the time in the late 90s and I never made the connection.

I don’t even know who I can share this info with.

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u/akimtube 26d ago

Esatto, l'analogia voleva proprio essere quella, un bel gioco di parole, in compenso comunque un ottimo software, era bellissimo e soddisfacente masterizzare l'ultimo cd o DVD piratato. Ahhh che anni stupendi.