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Microblog Memes

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[–] [email protected] 134 points 8 months ago (24 children)

There was a program call "Nero burning ROM". A pun I understood much later

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (11 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Nero, the Roman emperor, burned Rome.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

You made me say oh my god out loud and facepalm pretty harddd…

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

ok I never thought I would need this info about CD burning but this is genuinely a cool revelation about my childhood

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Go look up the loading screen for Nero. It was a burning colosseum. Such a cool branding job.

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