Bye bye Floppy Disks

Even before the floppy finally flopped, I said bye bye to them when I got my first USB flash drive way back in college. It was a measly 64MB USB flash drive yet it can hold more data than a 1.44 MB floppy disk. And, my flash drive back then won’t prompt me to format it every time I put it to use with another PC. :D After seeing the I’m a PC and I’m a Mac advertisements, I suddenly thought of “I’m a floppy and I’m a flash drive” version of it. :D

Floppy: I’m a floppy
Flash drive: and I’m a flash drive

Floppy: I can hold word documents, spreadsheets
Flash drive: and I can hold more than that. Be it powerpoint slides, videos, MP3s. I’m fun.
Floppy: I’m all work
Flash drive: And I work hard and play hard

*****

Floppy: I’m a floppy
Flash drive: and I’m a flash drive

Floppy: I’m thin
Flash drive: and you can fit me in your hands with your fists closed

*****

Floppy: I’m a flop… *started to pause*
Flash drive: and I’m a flash drive
Flash drive: What’s happening to… Ohhh… reformat!
*Floppy started to puke data*
Floppy: What happened to me? Where am I? What time is it?

The End!

Just keep your floppy disks with your betamax tapes for the ultimate techie vintage collection. :D

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7 Responses to Bye bye Floppy Disks

  1. On the contrary, floppies are alive and thriving over here in DLSU-D. Since the geniuses at our university ITC still bans the use of USB Flash drives in the library computers and instead, they sell us floppies instead!

  2. PC World (the US store, akin to our PC Express) just stopped stocking on floppies. actually im surprised it took them this long.

  3. Actually they made a good use of them last christmas… Christmas trees made from floppies. What a flop.

  4. I started using USB when Disk drives were disabled from school’s PC to avoid things like “virus” (daw) and “free downloads” (as if they can prevent that!) ^.^

  5. hey karla, did you get my mail? I emailed you at your gmail account. :)

  6. I haven’t used a floppy in a long while. I’ve been using USB chip for 3 years now, and I wouldn’t go back if you held a gun to my head… ehmm… ok maybe… but, I’d have to think about it…

    Karla, I miss the shoutbox… what happened to it?

  7. hi everyone :)
    sorry for the delayed reply :D
    wasn’t able to access my blog in china
    anyways,

    @jhay
    hmmm, i guess nag-uubos sila ng stock haha :D

    @jeff
    yeah i’m also surprised why it took a long time before they did that
    it should have been done 3 years ago hehe

    @j4son,
    mind showing a picture of the flop christmas tree :D

    @euri,
    i guess they should use a better antivirus instead of banning the use of USB drives ;)

    @benj,
    yes i got your email :) di lang ako makareply agad coz of a lot of things :)

    @nick,
    i removed the shoutbox. may nakukuha din kasi akong spam dun. :D

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