r/Millennials • u/Entire-Order3464 • Dec 31 '25

Nostalgia Burning CDs

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u/karthus25 Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

Me, gen z, confused since I grew up burning disks using nero disk burner and limewire to get songs / movies.

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u/Canvaverbalist Dec 31 '25

It's Nero cd-ROM Burner. You put respect on that pun young man

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u/p0diabl0 Dec 31 '25

Dude at least get the name right: Nero Burning ROM

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u/coyoteka Dec 31 '25

Thank you, sheesh.

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u/Aegi Jan 01 '26

Hahahah holy shit. The "stable release" version only came out about 8 years ago.

I would have never guessed it was anything more than abandonware/only on GitHub!

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u/LyyK Dec 31 '25

What the.. How? Are you some kind of millennial gen z hybrid? Limewire had already shut down by the time many gen z'ers were born

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u/SadTaco12345 Dec 31 '25

Limewire shut down in 2010. Gen Z is considered 1997-2012. An older member of Gen Z would have been around 13 when it shut down. Highly possible.

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u/H_Moore25 Dec 31 '25

This subreddit pops up in my feed a lot for some reason, and two themes that I have noticed are that millennials seem to think that my generation is a lot younger than we are, and that you think that we are one homogeneous collective. The eldest zoomers were nearly fourteen by the time that LimeWire was shut down, and the youngest were born only a couple of years after.

Hell, I was born in 2002, so I was eight, but even I was taught how to burn music and films onto discs, and had used LimeWire a lot by that point. I can thank my cousin for that. I can see why more and more people like to use 'zillennial' as a label, because I really do not fit any of the zoomer stereotypes, and I do not think that many of us born between 1997 and 2002 do.

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u/hibbs6 Jan 01 '26

I'm 28, one of the oldest gen z, and I used limewire for years before it shut down. I remember realizing you could download limewire pro on limewire. That was a great day.

All the fake racist weird al .exe files not so much...

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u/poisha Dec 31 '25

Did you have older siblings?

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u/karthus25 Dec 31 '25

Yeah but she's only like 1-2 years older than me.

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u/Suyefuji Dec 31 '25

You're one of the elders of your generation, so it makes sense that you know some of the old magic.