cd/dvd burning

@bvdev234 (304)
India
October 14, 2008 10:26pm CST
Why writing onto cd/dvd called burning?
3 responses
loxion
@loxion (1553)
• India
15 Oct 08
I guess each and every industry has its own language which determine a certain products,maybe thats the techconology term which best describe the writing of information on cd's.
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Spazor
@Spazor (30)
• United States
15 Oct 08
My guess would probably be that because of the lasers in the CD-DVD drive, people would assume that the lasers are frying the disk. I don't know really. I guess it's just a catchy name that caught on quickly.
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tamarafireheart
@tamarafireheart (15384)
•
15 Oct 08
Hi bvdev234, I really have no idea why it called burning, I am not very good with new technology languages. Tamara