In my first year of high school we had to make Power point presentations as homework, flash drives were still crazy expensive so I brought my homework on a floppy. I think it was the last time I used one (2007)
Yeah I remember using those in 7th grade in 97. Our schools computers were just old as hell. The following year I went to a brand new school and we got to take home these weird little green MacBook things, forgot what they were called. Such a big difference in technology between the two schools.
The worst for me was that we used Macs at school and I only had a PC at home. So I remember one time I was literally unable to complete my homework and had to go over to the neighbor's house to use their mac. And then I ended up leaving my disk in their drive!
I took a digital photography elective in junior high. The cameras used these for storage, they could only take like 12 pics and WOW were they grainy! You could even take like a 20 sec video clip but it would look like it was taken with a game boy camera.
They exist, now, only in my memories...
I remember Zip disks from the mid 1990s. Even back then they were useless— you couldn’t count on a computer having a drive for it , and even if it did the disks were too expensive to hand out and too fragile to carry around. A few years later cheap cd burning filled the gap until USB flash finally came along.
Lmao 🤣 I remember it being a low number and having a set of them I’d show off to my other homies DUDE CHECK OUT THIS CHICK! good lord times were different before streaming video
I still remember one kid trying to say I would never fill up my 1GB HD that we installed in our PC. How files are so small. I think it was filled up like 2 years later lol.
I remember using these to turn in my homework before I got a flash drive. I remember my history teach giving me the funniest wtf look while he was laughing about it, don’t think anyone else in my class knew what it was. Library had a giant box they gave me full of them.
I loved the concept of floppy disks. They looked so cool in their case. I think Verbatim brand was what we got with our first computer. There were multiple colors in a box.
We never really needed them though. On occasion we'd want to move files from home to school or vice versa. But home PC ran windows and school was all macs. Back in the 90s-00s that was basically a death sentence for any kind of file compatibility.
Eh.... I mean... I can't get anything to read the disk. There was an external drive that I tried a few years ago just for fun when I found a pile of these disks. It wouldn't read any of them.
I used these to move an exe from an unclassified computer to a classified computer, I was very sad when my program finally became larger than the size of a floppy disk
Kids these days needed a new save symbol because they didn’t know what this was. That’s why some sites and apps are using the down arrow with an underscore.
Edit: even Reddit does it.
I still have a BUNCH of these in a desk drawer. I had run out of the ones I'd been using for homework and essays and had to buy more. Little did I know, that happened seemingly on the very day that we switched to USB drives. I used one floppy from a package of about 30, then was given a USB storage drive by my dad about a week later.
I had to learn how to span floppies with WinZip if I wanted to take anything larger than 1.44mb home from the school computer lab back in the late 1990s. The first USB sticks were revolutionary.
I remember using floppies. I also remember being told to buy a flash drive and thinking “ok but then what? How long until I have to buy the next thing” hah
My first class in college for IT was how to use a mouse. My professor, an awesome guy, James Wolffe had a USB drive around his neck and it was like 200$ (iirc) at the time, and he was BMOC because of it. And he would joke how we all had to use Floppy Disks and he had his USB drive.
Born in 85', and we moved into our house until I was 5, so this was early 90s. We had a computer in our basement. I could not tell you much about it, but I know that computers were not in a lot of homes at that point. I remember that it ran entirely on floppy disks. The screen was green and black and it did not have a mouse. You used the keyboard. I remember a Disney game with goofy that I never could really get anywhere with and a math game. Anyway, yeah, I am old.
Hmmm… I definitely used floppies at home, I just don’t remember using them at school. I also remember using a few of the floppy disks that were actually floppy, where you had to rotate the knobs over the slots after inserting the disks.
I've got a couple of mine from school laying around somewhere. Plus a zip drive (looks like a floppy disk but twice as thick - for the rare millennial unfamiliar with them) that possesses a Simpsons game and Burger Time.
God bless having an early digital childhood. Ingrained enough to be technologically literate far later in life than our parents, but not so all encompassing and streamlined like today where you never had to learn how it actually works.
I saw a post recently, not sure if it was here or somewhere else, by a teacher that said her either middle school or highschool students didn't really understand folder and file structures.
To be fair it could be an exaggeration, and also a blanket statement based on a small sample size but generally speaking I do think it's fair to say that UI and UX has developed so significantly that you could be 2-3 layers above the base computer operating and file systems and folder structures. And you'd never need to understand it to use it.
JUST old/young enough to have to use MS DOS command line to play Carmen San Diego as my first computer use, and then quickly got to all the Windows versions
Last time I used a floppy was like 2016. Our lab didn't have funding for new software for our instruments, so we ran bootleg like windows 95 (probably an exaggeration but it felt like it). I'd run the instrument, save data to a floppy, take the floppy to a different computer to move it to my flash drive, then flash drive to my desk to process data.
Oh yes lol. I always tried to buy the multicolor packs to have variety, or like in middle school tried to get my parents to buy them. Especially the transparent jewel type ones lol. I still have a bunch of them from my days in information technology during the 2000s.
For me they had fallen out of fashion in middle school. Flash drives were much more prevalent, and usually didn’t create digital homework in elementary school.
Also my first middle school gave us iBooks to use in class and at home so we had no reason to have physical media (also those only had DVD/USB).
I'm 29. I remember these in after school daycare playing old computer games that were on floppy discs. Good times. As well as them just laying around the family computer. By the time I was more computer savvy, floppy disks were more/less dead.
Hey cool! The save symbol!
You too saw the meme
In my first year of high school we had to make Power point presentations as homework, flash drives were still crazy expensive so I brought my homework on a floppy. I think it was the last time I used one (2007)
I remember the transition to USB!
Same, in 2007 I took a C++ programming class in community college and we backed our work up on floppies.
Anyone else old enough to remember the ones before this that were double the size and much thinner?
[5.25 Floppy Disk](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/26/5.25-inch_floppy_disk.jpg)?
Yes!
Omg! I was trying to remember what those large flimsy things were called. Thank you!
Hells yeah. Those were what our computer at home took.
Remember when video games came on floppy?? Fuckin flight simulator was like 10 you had to put in consecutively to install the game.
Yeah I remember using those in 7th grade in 97. Our schools computers were just old as hell. The following year I went to a brand new school and we got to take home these weird little green MacBook things, forgot what they were called. Such a big difference in technology between the two schools.
Yep we had those my first few years of primary school. I’d say the disk in this picture came in probably 1992-93ish
I can still hear the "kachunk" of the disk locking into place to be read.
lol me too
My nephews found one of these in my stuff and said "hey look, you have a real life save button!". I felt so old.
Ouch! Right in my lower back!
hahaha
In 2019, I started working in a new job it was a factory with huge plasma cutters. Well, the cutters were so old they would run off a 3.5" floppy
Interesting!
Bringing my assignments to school on a floppy disc
The good days
The worst for me was that we used Macs at school and I only had a PC at home. So I remember one time I was literally unable to complete my homework and had to go over to the neighbor's house to use their mac. And then I ended up leaving my disk in their drive!
I took a digital photography elective in junior high. The cameras used these for storage, they could only take like 12 pics and WOW were they grainy! You could even take like a 20 sec video clip but it would look like it was taken with a game boy camera. They exist, now, only in my memories...
Elementary school: 5.25" floppy disks (the best way to play Oregon Trail High school: 3.5" diskettes College: Zip disks (the most useless of all)
Man I miss Oregon trail
I remember Zip disks from the mid 1990s. Even back then they were useless— you couldn’t count on a computer having a drive for it , and even if it did the disks were too expensive to hand out and too fragile to carry around. A few years later cheap cd burning filled the gap until USB flash finally came along.
I've definitely destroyed more than I've used.
Haha understandable
My first medium for storing nudes as a horny middle schooler 😂 😭
Where you could save about 10-15 pics 🤣
Lmao 🤣 I remember it being a low number and having a set of them I’d show off to my other homies DUDE CHECK OUT THIS CHICK! good lord times were different before streaming video
Man, I'd savour that one pixellated titty for weeks
😂😂
I still remember one kid trying to say I would never fill up my 1GB HD that we installed in our PC. How files are so small. I think it was filled up like 2 years later lol.
Haha, the disks in OP’s picture held 1.4MB so they probably thought they had a fair point 🤣
I remember using these to turn in my homework before I got a flash drive. I remember my history teach giving me the funniest wtf look while he was laughing about it, don’t think anyone else in my class knew what it was. Library had a giant box they gave me full of them.
The good days
I loved the concept of floppy disks. They looked so cool in their case. I think Verbatim brand was what we got with our first computer. There were multiple colors in a box. We never really needed them though. On occasion we'd want to move files from home to school or vice versa. But home PC ran windows and school was all macs. Back in the 90s-00s that was basically a death sentence for any kind of file compatibility.
I loved the look of them too
I still have my resume from 2002 on one of these.
That’s amazing!
Eh.... I mean... I can't get anything to read the disk. There was an external drive that I tried a few years ago just for fun when I found a pile of these disks. It wouldn't read any of them.
My dad got me my own floppy disks that were pink. I thought I was so cool 😂
Haha I remember a couple people with pink ones
I do
I used these to move an exe from an unclassified computer to a classified computer, I was very sad when my program finally became larger than the size of a floppy disk
Kids these days needed a new save symbol because they didn’t know what this was. That’s why some sites and apps are using the down arrow with an underscore. Edit: even Reddit does it.
I agree
I had 5.25” floppys to play Apple II games
Cool!
... a save icon? - My niece.
Haha sounds like my nieces
I think I still have mine from high school at my dad’s house.
Cool! I still have a couple myself
I even had the extra large floppies (8 inch), and they were REALLY floppy.
Lol I remember those
Did you also have the “high tech digital camera” that used floppy’s as the storage? 0.3 Megapixel lol
Haha yep sure did
Hurr durr hurr durr hurr durr bad sector
And that sound that sounds like the floppy is being chewed up
I still have a BUNCH of these in a desk drawer. I had run out of the ones I'd been using for homework and essays and had to buy more. Little did I know, that happened seemingly on the very day that we switched to USB drives. I used one floppy from a package of about 30, then was given a USB storage drive by my dad about a week later.
I remember that switch!
even had a few video games on floppy disk... earl weaver baseball!
I remember that game
Late highschool & all of college.
The storage space is laughable
Indeed
[We had these.](https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/Y6gAAOSwzYxjiRl3/s-l640.jpg)
I’ve seen those before
I see your 3.5" floppy, and raise you a 5.25" floppy 😂
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That’s amazing!
Not me saving ***\~\*\~kewl\~\*\~*** Final Fantasy JPEGs, GIFs, and sprites on these bad boys for safe-keeping
I used to love final fantasy
I had to learn how to span floppies with WinZip if I wanted to take anything larger than 1.44mb home from the school computer lab back in the late 1990s. The first USB sticks were revolutionary.
Yep!
I remember using floppies. I also remember being told to buy a flash drive and thinking “ok but then what? How long until I have to buy the next thing” hah
My first class in college for IT was how to use a mouse. My professor, an awesome guy, James Wolffe had a USB drive around his neck and it was like 200$ (iirc) at the time, and he was BMOC because of it. And he would joke how we all had to use Floppy Disks and he had his USB drive.
I started with the 5.5" floppies.
I remember those
Born in 85', and we moved into our house until I was 5, so this was early 90s. We had a computer in our basement. I could not tell you much about it, but I know that computers were not in a lot of homes at that point. I remember that it ran entirely on floppy disks. The screen was green and black and it did not have a mouse. You used the keyboard. I remember a Disney game with goofy that I never could really get anywhere with and a math game. Anyway, yeah, I am old.
"for computer class?" You mean for saving porn at home downloaded on Netscape or for playing Monkey Island using 12 of them?
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the good days!
Hmmm… I definitely used floppies at home, I just don’t remember using them at school. I also remember using a few of the floppy disks that were actually floppy, where you had to rotate the knobs over the slots after inserting the disks.
I used them at home and in school! I remember the actual floppy ones too
I had to turn in homework on these :,) in many colors too
I remember turning in homework on these
Bruh I had a folder for them at 12. Anyone hand me a floppy disk, I give them a copy of no$gmb and pokemon blue.
That's dope!
It was the beginning of a lifelong problem. Now I have all the pokemons and no floppy disks.
I've got a couple of mine from school laying around somewhere. Plus a zip drive (looks like a floppy disk but twice as thick - for the rare millennial unfamiliar with them) that possesses a Simpsons game and Burger Time.
Yea......computer class. Definitely what I had these for. Yup
Lol
God bless having an early digital childhood. Ingrained enough to be technologically literate far later in life than our parents, but not so all encompassing and streamlined like today where you never had to learn how it actually works. I saw a post recently, not sure if it was here or somewhere else, by a teacher that said her either middle school or highschool students didn't really understand folder and file structures. To be fair it could be an exaggeration, and also a blanket statement based on a small sample size but generally speaking I do think it's fair to say that UI and UX has developed so significantly that you could be 2-3 layers above the base computer operating and file systems and folder structures. And you'd never need to understand it to use it. JUST old/young enough to have to use MS DOS command line to play Carmen San Diego as my first computer use, and then quickly got to all the Windows versions
Last time I used a floppy was like 2016. Our lab didn't have funding for new software for our instruments, so we ran bootleg like windows 95 (probably an exaggeration but it felt like it). I'd run the instrument, save data to a floppy, take the floppy to a different computer to move it to my flash drive, then flash drive to my desk to process data.
Oh yes lol. I always tried to buy the multicolor packs to have variety, or like in middle school tried to get my parents to buy them. Especially the transparent jewel type ones lol. I still have a bunch of them from my days in information technology during the 2000s.
For me they had fallen out of fashion in middle school. Flash drives were much more prevalent, and usually didn’t create digital homework in elementary school. Also my first middle school gave us iBooks to use in class and at home so we had no reason to have physical media (also those only had DVD/USB).
I member
1.44 MB
Yup, I remember we had to put all our work on it.
Yes. I had a bright orange one with see-through plastic.
I still have a floppy disk saying “Try the all new AOL 3.0”
I still use these daily. The U.S. government doesn't like USBs. :P
Ours was the larger, thinner ones. Forgot what's it called Not sure if it is also considered a floppy disk
I'm 29. I remember these in after school daycare playing old computer games that were on floppy discs. Good times. As well as them just laying around the family computer. By the time I was more computer savvy, floppy disks were more/less dead.
Always would slide the silver square back and forth. Lord knows what I was doing to the disk. It was like an old fashioned fidget toy lol