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The first commercial Compact Disc was created 43 years ago, today — nearly one billion CDs were shipped per year in early 2000's (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 4 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

I've never heard anyone call 3.5" discs, microfloppies. They are just floppies, despite not being the original size or even floppy anymore.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Get off my lawn, whippersnappers. shakes fist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk

In 1984, IBM introduced with its PC/AT the 1.2 MB (1,228,800 bytes) dual-sided 5¼-inch floppy disk, but it never became very popular. IBM started using the 720 KB double density 3½-inch microfloppy disk on its Convertible laptop computer in 1986 and the 1.44 MB (1,474,560 bytes) high-density version with the IBM Personal System/2 (PS/2) line in 1987. These disk drives could be added to older PC models.

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

My gf calls me a 3.5" microfloppy :/

[–] Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Yea, but that's warranted.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 14 hours ago

Duh, everyone knows they’re called save icons.