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Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks (japantoday.com)

submitted 1 year ago by manucode@infosec.pub to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 40 points 1 year ago (13 children)

I drew a floppy disk as part of a workplace online Pictionary game, only to find somebody I work with has never seen one.

We work in IT.

The rest of us tried to explain what they were and he was like "did you use them in a GameCube?" and "was it like a USB stick?"

[–] LilaOrchidee@feddit.org 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

"it's the save icon"

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

He thought the save icon was a printer...

[–] Ludrol@szmer.info 1 points 1 year ago

On windows "save as PDF" is a printer.

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