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minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-210 months agoThe 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.
minus-squaretoddestan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·10 months agoIn 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.
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.