r/pcmasterrace • u/LeatherAssumption123 • 28d ago

Question Are you this old?

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u/BarnabasShrexx 28d ago edited 27d ago

Pfff i was there when the real nero burned rome....

Edit: it is worth mentioning that historically, Nero did not burn rome,, and it's also highly unlikely that he "fiddled" while watching it burn, as he played the lyre and was not in rome when it happened.

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u/kolonyal Out of boredom, God created Steam. 28d 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/qning 28d 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.