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Japan government accepts it’s no longer the ’90s
Ah, so they've also stopped keeping fax around as well right?...RIGHT??
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Still pixelating porn though? Stay classy.
As they say, it’s been the year 2000 in Japan for the past 40 years
I remember putting songs on floppy disks and it could hold like 7 or 8 depending on the size of the song. I want to say that I had one of those double floppies or whatever that could store 1.5 megabytes.
Fun fact, all it took to make a floppy disk double sided was a hole punch.
punches a hole straight through the recording media
you lied to me
It depended…. The media used to need to support using both sides. I actually ran into some single sided media in the early early days. Or you’d get “binned” equivalents where even though they had the magnetic layer on the opposite side, quite often they’d fail after use.
What kind of songs? MIDIs or something?
Mp3s back when they were like 300kb. This would have been 2003 or so.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
It recently announced amendments to laws requiring the use of the physical media formats for submissions to the government for things like alcohol business, mining, and aircraft regulation.
Kono announced intentions to amend regulations to support online submissions and cloud data storage, changing requirements that go back several decades, as noted recently by Japanese news site SoraNews24.
As per a Google translation of a January 23 article from the Japanese tech website PC Watch, the ministry has deleted requirements of floppy disks and CD-ROMs for various ordinances, including some pertaining to quarrying, energy, and weapons manufacturing regulations.
METI's announcement, as per a Google translation, highlighted the Japanese government's "many provisions stipulating the use of specific recording media such as floppy disks regarding application and notification methods," as well as "situations that are hindering the online implementation of procedures."
With usage growing and peaking in the '80s and '90s, the floppy disk couldn't compete with the likes of CD-ROMs, USB thumb drives, and other more advanced forms of storage made available by the late '90s.
Its Japanese customers are "mostly hobbyists and private parties that have machines or musical equipment that continue to use floppy disks," Tom Persky, who runs the site, said.
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It's kinda weird, i thought japan is all about future & high tech but yet they still using floppy disk & fax machine every day