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minus-squareRotSteinFinke@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up75·18 hours agoOf course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
minus-squaresnekmuffin@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up61·edit-218 hours agoI think i’ve still never been more impressed by a program name since. you’re literally “Burning ROM”…
minus-squaresleepdrifter@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·17 hours agoRight, only took me almost twenty years too
minus-squareDharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·17 hours agoI’m so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it
minus-squarech00f@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up29·17 hours agoOn the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.” What a great era for software branding.
Of course it was a ritual. It was a form of necromancy, to start you had to invoke the name of an ancient Roman emperor
I think i’ve still never been more impressed by a program name since. you’re literally “Burning ROM”…
Oh my God
Right, only took me almost twenty years too
I’m so fucking impressed, and simultaneously I feel like a dumbass for never getting it
Oh, like Rome.
On the mac, there was Toast (it burns), and Nero had an ad that said that they “Eat Toast for Breakfast.”
What a great era for software branding.
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