• @AngryCommieKender
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • @toddestan
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      19 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        19 months ago

        The Sega MegaCD didn’t have any copy protection because people couldn’t burn their own CDs yet.