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?

  • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Yes, they were magical. Computers in general were magical. When they released 3.5" floppies to replace the 5.25" floppies they seemed so elegant and futuristic. I loved that you could save reports and stuff on a floppy and take it with you for use on any other computer. Of course when thumb drives came out they made floppies largely obsolete, but the thumb drives were even more magical. I paid $65 in college for a 64MB thumb drive that glowed blue when you plugged it in, and I felt like I was living in the future. That was $65 when the minimum wage was $4.25 an hour, so it was very expensive.