Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
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    4 months ago

    I drew a floppy disk as part of a workplace online Pictionary game, only to find somebody I work with has never seen one.

    We work in IT.

    The rest of us tried to explain what they were and he was like “did you use them in a GameCube?” and “was it like a USB stick?”

    • Laser@feddit.orgEnglish
      321·
      4 months ago

      I mean it was a bit like a USB stick. Just nobody made the comparison back then because USB didn’t exist. But yes it is removable storage that is read/writable.

      GameCube though…

    • Irelephant@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      Nintendo was planning on adopting floppies iirc, but they were too easy to copy from.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        4 months ago

        There was definitely a SNES floppy drive you could buy for piracy purposes. A few kids at school had them.

        Not sure if it worked with larger games or Starfox which supposedly had an extra SuperFX chip to do 3D work.