If I may ask, in which field did you end up working?
For me it actually turned out to be IT, and being in the field of specialists that are actively recruited. Gaming always stayed.
There were even bigger floppies before then where the term might have started but the 5 1/4 were those I first knew, with the low capacity (360kb?). It's still crazy how the amount of memory/storage rose and I sometimes lose track because of that (MB? GB? TB!) as well as my own age (mostly because I don't care.