The US nuclear arsenal still runs on floppy disks.
EDIT: The Air Force claimed they finished a migration from 8-inch floppy disks to solid state storage in June 2019, so my info is slightly out of date. They did use floppy disks for over 50 years though (1968-2019).
It's not the disks it's what's ON the disks
I remember when floppies where called floppy because they were huge and floppy (that's what she said). Before the hard shell smaller floppies became a thing.
The most important 1.44 MB you can imagine.
what are all these old memes doing with save icons? /s
My first porn was on floppy disk
Shredder had a zip disk
Who said they still cant?
Well considering most code is under a megabyte it makes sense
Nowadays it's all data crystals.
Nowadays it's microSD cards.
I remember when movies/games first started using UBS sticks to contain important plot-macguffin data, it seemed very high-tech and expensive. Of course, now high-capacity sticks are incredibly cheap so anyone can have a whole drawer of them.
Remember a Decepticon that transformed into a cassette?
It's a goober
Shredder and Usagi seem to be holding Zip discs rather than floppy discs. I have no idea what Ripster is holding.
In fact, Lexington seems to be the only one with a floppy disc here
A simple command line in AutoGPT can be enough, as proven with ChaosGPT. But I am more afraid of human stupidity than of AI, it is this that is going to destroy us.
Climate change increased drastically since the era of floppy disks, coincidence!?
They are truly iconic.
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