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When was the last time you used a floppy disk? (sopuli.xyz)
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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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[–] 5 points 19 hours ago

I don't remember for sure, but I'd guess late 90s at the latest, for smaller files where it wouldn't make sense to burn a CD-R and uploading it somewhere (especially since I didn't have a CD-RW until later) and downloading it wasn't a viable option.

With most data transfer to friends being via BBS or later IRC DCC over the Internet, and software becoming available on CDROM, and Zip drives for backup, and CD-R and CD-RW becoming available for larger files, the use cases for floppies were already becoming limited by mid-90s.

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