It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.
In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD’s really didn’t really go mainstream until the very late 90’s.
It started with a Tori Amos lyric about someone burning CDs. I couldn’t imagine why you’d destroy valuable property lol. The term was used originally in industry and later adopted for home use.
The first commercially available CD-Rs were produced in 1988.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-R
Tori Amos became popular in the 90s. The term burning a CD was in common parlance by 1993. I doubt that Tori is the origin of the phrase.
In 1993, computers were just starting to get CD-ROM drives and CD-Rs were pretty exotic technology. Being able to burn CD’s really didn’t really go mainstream until the very late 90’s.