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[–] 2 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    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.

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