floppy disks – why the iconic storage medium still matters today
@brett_jordan, Unsplash The Floppy Disk by Ren Alcantara If you have recently used versions of Microsoft Office, or some similar office suite, and done enough that deserves keeping, you should be familiar with the little icon you hit to start the process of saving. If you're not of legal drinking age, or are not too far removed from it, you may have no idea what that little button represents. In case you've been curious, but too shy to ask, it's a floppy disk. Before flash drives—heck, before flash memory was a thing we used-data had to be stored somewhere. If you were working exclusively on a local device, that would be okay, since your machine had the internal hard drive on which to save information. That doesn't help you out very much if you needed to share said information. However, opening your computer up, tearing out the hard drive, and having your friend do the reverse wasn't worth the effort just to share your Dungeons and Dragons monster manual. The solu...