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Remember backing up to diskettes? I’m sorry. I do, too.

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    Nitta
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    Fortunately nowadays floppy disks are only good for watching solar eclipses. But it's amusing how iconic the legacy is: even in very modern apps I still see floppy disk on Save icon.

    Fortunately nowadays floppy disks are only good for watching solar eclipses. But it's amusing how iconic the legacy is: even in very modern apps I still see floppy disk on Save icon.

    5 votes
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      sublime_aenima
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      I still use a floppy disk at work to transfer data from older equipment to a computer. Two of my engineers had never seen one before I had shown them how to transfer the data during training. I...

      I still use a floppy disk at work to transfer data from older equipment to a computer. Two of my engineers had never seen one before I had shown them how to transfer the data during training. I only found this out when one was proud of herself for realizing why it was used as the save logo after about a year of using them. When my daughter found one in the trunk of my car, she thought it was a camera for spying or getting into places that didn’t allow cameras. The legacy of it is starting to dwindle.

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      1. DanBC
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        Can't remember where I saw this, but someone was told "Oh wow you 3d printed the save icon?" which I thought was funny.

        Can't remember where I saw this, but someone was told "Oh wow you 3d printed the save icon?" which I thought was funny.

        3 votes
  2. vakieh
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    Look at all these young'uns on my lawn. I'm still a 'shit hit the fan' point of contact for a magnetic tape backup system. You know, the ones that look like audio cassette tapes? Yeah, they're...

    Look at all these young'uns on my lawn. I'm still a 'shit hit the fan' point of contact for a magnetic tape backup system. You know, the ones that look like audio cassette tapes? Yeah, they're still alive and kicking. Floppy disks are a blip on the nostalgia radar.

    I get my nostalgia fix from hearing the degauss noise.

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  3. MacGuges
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    I remember hiking onto my college campus with a box of floppies to download an early distribution of Slackware Linux to install to my personal PC. The prospect of downloading an entire operating...

    I remember hiking onto my college campus with a box of floppies to download an early distribution of Slackware Linux to install to my personal PC. The prospect of downloading an entire operating system directly to my home would've been a grandiose fantasy.

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