• Pnut@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    This reminds me of the “save” logo in almost every app. Apparently I’m one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.

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      3 days ago

      Fuck yall not old, just told my 16 year old I had to tape something and he said and I quote, “Like record something?” He 16 and he knew what I was talking about. Maybe her kids just sheltered.

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      3 days ago

      There’s a piece of software we use at work and the save icon for that is a downwards pointing arrow and a CD. No one knows what it means.

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      Idk, my high school aged kid is using floppies to load software onto a piece of equipment in their shop class at school. It also accepts usb (but only at usb 1 speeds, and exfat formatted) .

      The kids are into using floppies of different colors much like I was in my first comp sci class in high school.

      It’s not ubiquitous but it isn’t quite as unknown as it was.

      I mean I knew what an 8 track was in the 90s.