Thursday, September 17, 2009

The Bad Old Days

Remember when using a computer involved swapping out floppy disks every few steps? Whew, I had almost forgotten, until I saw this video.

Ugh! How did we survive it?

I haven't owned a computer with a 3.5" floppy drive since 1996 and I haven't used a 5.25" floppy since I was a freshman in high school (1991). Honestly I only use the optical drive (CDs and DVDs) only once in a great while and almost never for data transfer. With the internet, thumb drives, and networks, removable media is living on borrowed time (I'm looking at you Blu-Ray).

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