You Saved Files On A Floppy Disc
There’s nothing more legendary than the floppy disc. It was an icon of the era before Wi-Fi. Those of you who lived through those floppy disc times remember what it was like to manually save all of your data on that large disc. You’d have to be very careful where you placed it, store it securely, and make sure you never lost it. Even that soft sleeve that came with the floppy discs to keep them free from scratches didn’t protect them. Back then, it was the only reliable way to transfer files. Roger Kasten, the IBM Systems’ Worldwide Storage Manager said, “The floppy disk provided the first genuinely easy way to transfer files. Back in the ‘80s and ‘90s, we often depended on ‘sneaker-net’ to transfer data between computers. All you had to do was put data on a floppy, walk over to a colleague or friend, hand the floppy over, and allow that person to copy the data to their system.” Now, we have websites like WeTransfer and Dropbox to easily send files to each other, even if we’re across the entire world (IBM)