cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/62743547
this post was submitted on 04 Nov 2026
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I mean I purchased an external floppy for my undergrad laptop as recently as... 2004... Oh shit that was 22 years ago... Fuck a kid born a year later can legally buy alcohol and a kid born then is graduating from undergraduate....
When did I get old?
I remember building a computer in 2004 and finally making the decision to not include a floppy drive since I had just been booting from the CD drive for the past couple of issues anyways.
I was reminded of this several years later when I made the decision not to include a disk drive in my latest build.
I used a floppy disk yesterday. In some businesses we use old equipment for a long time. Because it works.
Easy. At some point between then and now.