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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (www.reuters.com)
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[–] gaylord_fartmaster@lemmy.world 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

lol Japan invents the three major optical disc storage mediums that became ubiquitous and their government says fuck that and just keeps on using floppy disks

[–] fluckx@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

At least the floppy fits in a standard envelope ( as long ad we're talking about the 3.5" )

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 months ago

they invented those too afaik