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I Love the 90s

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Floppy Disks And Growing up in the Late 90s (lemm.ee)
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I grew up in the late 90s, so by the time I ever really got to use a computer, Floppy Disks were already pretty well out of fashion. For anybody else who “grew up” in the 90s, did you actually enjoy using them? We’re they always an inconvenience or did they have some magic to them?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Actually I’m pretty ignorant of floppy disks lol Like I said, I didn’t ever really use them and my dad works in engineering so they were always on the cutting edge of storage devices and he didn’t keep many floppies when CDs became more popular. It’s cool to learn about this stuff that I like JUST missed out on.

[–] howler 2 points 1 year ago

well, in the grand scheme of things, all of those modes of storage came and went relatively quickly, and the internet almost completely outmoded the need for portable tech...for more static usage, even HDDs are being replaced by SSDs... and all companies want to us to migrate even that to the cloud, to more centralize and profit from that.

[–] howler 2 points 1 year ago

well, in the grand scheme of things, all of those modes of storage came and went relatively quickly, and the internet almost completely outmoded the need for portable tech...for more static usage, even HDDs are being replaced by SSDs... and all companies want to us to migrate even that to the cloud, to more centralize and profit from that.