Going, going, gone digital

摘要

Remember the floppy disk,the 3.5-inch 1.44MB disk that was the ubiquitous symbol of data storage for so many years in the latter part of the last century? It generated billions of dollars for its inventor IBM, many more for everybody that copied it and for a vast array of consumables distributors that couldn't get enough of the beloved floppy. Now it's dead, not even available anymore, having been slowly phased out first by the CD-RW, then by USB flash drives.