Mickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 months agoWhen I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museumlemmy.worldimagemessage-square37linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageWhen I die maybe they will also stuff me and put me in a museumlemmy.worldMickey7@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square37linkfedilink
minus-squareEnsign_Crab@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoLook closer. Those are 5.25" floppies, which never had the popularity as save icons that 3.5" floppies did.
minus-squaredalekcaan@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoTo be fair, even though 5¼" floppies are arguably more deserving of the name, I feel like most people still think of the 3½" disks when they hear “floppy disk.”
minus-squarehomes@piefed.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThey were floppy on the inside
minus-squaredalekcaan@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoYeah, but 5¼" were floppy inside and out
minus-square...m...@ttrpg.networklinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months ago(flashback of illiterate mundanes calling 3½" diskettes ‘hard disks’)
minus-squaremacniel@feddit.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoand then Hard Disk Drives entered the scene :O
minus-squarebetterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoI’m not about to let a little thing like perfect factual accuracy get in the way of a dumb joke.
Look closer. Those are 5.25" floppies, which never had the popularity as save icons that 3.5" floppies did.
To be fair, even though 5¼" floppies are arguably more deserving of the name, I feel like most people still think of the 3½" disks when they hear “floppy disk.”
They were floppy on the inside
Yeah, but 5¼" were floppy inside and out
(flashback of illiterate mundanes calling 3½" diskettes ‘hard disks’)
and then Hard Disk Drives entered the scene :O
I’m not about to let a little thing like perfect factual accuracy get in the way of a dumb joke.
Fair.