Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy. By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one…
I drew a floppy disk as part of a workplace online Pictionary game, only to find somebody I work with has never seen one.
We work in IT.
The rest of us tried to explain what they were and he was like “did you use them in a GameCube?” and “was it like a USB stick?”
I mean it was a bit like a USB stick. Just nobody made the comparison back then because USB didn’t exist. But yes it is removable storage that is read/writable.
GameCube though…
Yeah, I’m starting to doubt he’d ever seen a GameCube either.
“it’s the save icon”
He thought the save icon was a printer…
It’s happening… there have been posts from time to time over the years pointing out this issue.
It was bound to happen but now I can’t remember the ideas people came up with for a new save icon.
oh no… and what was the printer icon for him?
this makes me feel old…
We didn’t get a chance to ask that as everybody over 30 had already crumbled to dust by this point.
On windows “save as PDF” is a printer.
Nintendo was planning on adopting floppies iirc, but they were too easy to copy from.
Nintendo did use them for the add-on Famicom Disk System but that was all the way back in the 80s.
There was definitely a SNES floppy drive you could buy for piracy purposes. A few kids at school had them.
Not sure if it worked with larger games or Starfox which supposedly had an extra SuperFX chip to do 3D work.
No supposedly about it, Starfox was the most famous example but having extra hardware in the cartridge to power games was a thing.
Happy cake day!