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When was the last time you used a floppy disk? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 14 hours ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston's 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.

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[–] 1 point 12 hours ago

Can't remember, but I remember when the light went on in my brain about their relationship with hard drives. I opened up a hard drive (which is surprisingly hard to open) just for fun and saw the hard disk (as opposed to a floppy disk inside those paper envelopes) and realized it was called a hard disk or a hard drive because it's hard in contrast with the floppy.

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