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The Death of the Floppy Disk
vook writes "Long the most common way to store letters, homework and other computer files, the floppy disk is going the way of the horse upon the arrival of the car: it'll hang around but never hold the same relevance in everyday life. "
Since when has Microsoft, or Bill Gates, *led* the industry in anything new?
Can you really not think of anything?
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
You're forgetting that most Americans like watered-down crap. They won't buy a better quality DVD simply because they don't care about the quality (if they did, they would've adopted HDTV much more quickly). DVD offered a lot of new features over VHS (random access, no rewinding, extras, small and shiny), but the next DVD will offer nothing new except higher quality.
Never, ever, buy/build a PC with a floppy drive. It will become an unsightly dust attracting orifice that you'll never use, and if ever the time does come to use it, you'll find it doesn't work because of all the dust that's in it. It's not worth even the $15 it adds to the price of a PC. If ever there comes a time when you could do with a floppy drive for disaster recovery, you'll find plenty of old ones hanging around that you can temporarily attach.