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Mostly everyone over 40, and even some younger ones, still have some old floppy disks with files that may or may not be of value.

Somewhere in my mother's house, there still is (hopefully) a floppy disk from 2006-2007 with my teenage self's diary. I wish it is preserved

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Surprised you were still using a floppy disk in 2006-2007! You have decent odds, that’s pretty young for one.

Not sure why my parents chose to put a floppy disk driver on a desktop computer bought in 2006 (perhaps some seller was very convincing?), but I thought it was cool, so I used it sometimes. It was also cheaper than USB-sticks -and less likely to lose

2006 is close enough to 1998 that floppies would still be around in business settings, or for other specialized devices like embroidery machines.

I think I stopped adding floppies around that time.

I had my Tools disk and my MSDOS gaming boot disk, tweaked and tuned to perfection.

Those were the best of times.

Little me didn't know that was the gateway drug to coding.

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