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The End of a Floppy Era

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the it-ain't-hard-to-make-jokes dept.

An anonymous reader writes This article is an editorial on the end of the floppy and the rise of more portable, more efficient data storage." Floppy nothing. In my day we etched our data into pottery. Talk about your long term enterprise data storage. Some of those buggers made it thousands of years!

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  1. Hmm by SpooForBrains · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is the end of the floppy era related to all this viagra spam I keep getting?

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  2. pshaw! by nocomment · · Score: 3, Funny

    Your buried pottery broke into millions of peices at the slightest hint of a landslide, in my day we painted our data on the walls of ours caves.

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  3. long live my USB memory stick by barnseyboy · · Score: 4, Funny

    and how i love fiddling round the back of my pc trying to slot it in.

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  4. Re:I want my 5 minutes back by MyLongNickName · · Score: 4, Funny

    I want my 15 seconds back reading your reply.

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  5. Re:Keep the floppy by TobyWong · · Score: 3, Funny

    I had a great reply written up and saved to floppy, just as I was about to post it my floppy died.

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  6. I remember... by greenguy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...the first time I saw a "Don't Copy That Floppy!" poster, back in 1992.

    I stole it.

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  7. What a more appropriate time to say... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    1992 called, they want their poster back.