mangaluva wrote:
According to my dad, the moral of The Two Towers is "Don't build your evil fortress at the bottom of a dam!" He then launched into an incredibly detailed spiel about proper Evil Fortress construction, including clear-faced helmets for all foot soldiers so that they're hard to impersonate and absolutely no two-metre wide holes that link directly to the main reactor for any reason whatsoever.
mangaluva wrote:
According to my dad, the moral of The Two Towers is "Don't build your evil fortress at the bottom of a dam!" He then launched into an incredibly detailed spiel about proper Evil Fortress construction, including clear-faced helmets for all foot soldiers so that they're hard to impersonate and absolutely no two-metre wide holes that link directly to the main reactor for any reason whatsoever.
I borrowed one of my mum's floppy disks at one point, though they were a bit outdated by then so I guess they were still in use during the early 2000s...? (I have no idea how old I was when I used it other than it probably being before secondary school :x)
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bash7353 wrote:I kind of always assumed that Haneda's parents might've had names.
I used floppy disks in the mid-early 2000's (it feels like aaaages, I had win98 at that time xD I never knew how little they could fit, I only used them for word documents ^^
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GinRei wrote:
They were definitely obsolete. Still used, but completely outclassed by zip disks (1.44mb vs 100mb).
"obsolete" doesn't just mean that it's no longer the highest end of tech, it means that something is no longer useful because it's completely inferior to something else. Zip drives never obsoleted floppies, as their price point was still far too high, though floppies were eventually obsoleted by CDs. A supercomputer doesn't obsolete a desktop PC just because it's more powerful.
As far as stuff like backup went, yes, Zips were better than floppies. But different techs are used for different purposes, and for the file transfers that the majority of people did, Zip drives weren't as practical as floppies. If you want to just use disk capacity as the deciding metric, then you could also say that tape drives obsolete everything else due to their reliability and price per byte, but that's obviously false because they're bad at everything else.
I feel old. Not only do I remember using floppies, I can remember using actually-floppy floppies (the 5-in ones) for most things. And a dot-matrix printer, with the paper that you had to pull the edges off. I also remember getting marked off in 8th grade for forgetting to pull the edges off the printer paper before pasting it to the back of my poster.
Zip disks/drives didn't obsolete floppies because they were never mainstream. CDs partially, but floppies didn't become completely obsolete until jump drives (those USB dongle-ish things) came into mainstream use when their price point fell somewhere between '01 and '08. I still used floppies (not actually floppy ones, which DID go 'obsolete' sometime in the '90s when the smaller ones came in, but the little 3.5in things that weren't floppy on the outside) all the way through massage school, which I finished in '06. Granted they were mostly obsolete by that point, but the school's computers were kinda old. I do remember 3.5 floppies being quite useful in high school. (I think the USB-drive thing might have been out, but they were far too expensive at the turn of the millennium.)
I can also remember (rather clearly) working on a computer that had 640K of hard-disc space, and that was plenty for the stuff it ran. How many other people here remember that? And who remembers how old they were? (I was in early elementary, I think.... probably at least through 3rd or 4th grade. I think upgrades occurred in my house around the end of elementary school, say 1993-'95.)
Why yes, I will be turning 30 this year..... *glares* don't you DARE call me an old lady!
I have finally started to actually publish my story! For the moment, expect a new chapter each month.
"When a strange letter summons the Mouri family to Inaba, Ran is expecting a case. She's not expecting it to involve the TV, though.
If Naoto investigated everyone who came to visit Inaba, she'd have little time for real cases. When Yukiko reports that the Midnight Channel is back, however, she starts to wonder if the visitors are connected. Especially when the image clears, unveiling yet another mystery."
Short version: I'm taking various DC/MK characters to Inaba (where Persona 4 takes place) and dropping them through the TV to face their Shadows!
Stopwatch wrote:
...wait, there were floppy disks that were actually *floppy*? O.o
*facepalm* I feel old.... Yes. I've SEEN 12-in floppies, but the largest I used were the 5-in ones. These were floppy and didn't have a cover over the part where the compute read the magnetic disc inside, so one had to be more careful with them and did NOT permit very small children to handle them. I was old enough to be trusted with changing disks, but none of my brothers (the oldest is 3 years younger than me) were.
I have finally started to actually publish my story! For the moment, expect a new chapter each month.
"When a strange letter summons the Mouri family to Inaba, Ran is expecting a case. She's not expecting it to involve the TV, though.
If Naoto investigated everyone who came to visit Inaba, she'd have little time for real cases. When Yukiko reports that the Midnight Channel is back, however, she starts to wonder if the visitors are connected. Especially when the image clears, unveiling yet another mystery."
Short version: I'm taking various DC/MK characters to Inaba (where Persona 4 takes place) and dropping them through the TV to face their Shadows!
I recall the existence of floppy disks, but I was never allowed to handle one... my mum wouldn't let me anywhere near hers since they had her work on them :x Now I have little cousins asking me what the purple square next to the "save" button is... T_T
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