End of the era for Floppy Disks

[FredyB]

A computer chain is dropping floppy disks from sale due to plummeting demand. PC World will no longer stock the computer storage devices once its existing supplies have been sold.

And later this year none of the machines it sells will have built-in floppy drives.
The fast-moving world of technology has made floppy disks virtually redundant 36 years after they were invented, the chain said.

They have been replaced by CDs, memory cards and USB memory sticks which have up to 1,000 times as much storage capacity.

PC World commercial director Bryan Magrath said the "relentless" pace of technological change had left floppy disks unable to compete.
"The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated with 20th Century computing as the sound of a computer dialling in to the internet," he said.

According to the chain, the heyday of the 3.5in disks was in 1998 when around two billion were sold around the world.

That is so sad. Floppy disks no more useful . Its not like I use them anymore, but I remember the days I used to buy floppy for storage which was the only source for data storage when computers first emerged.

[Fabian]

Its sad indeed. Floppy disks were once used massively. But now, people dont even keep floppy drives in thier new machines.

[RoninBlade]

Floppy disks have extincted now. Its really sad. Its true that todays cabinet dont even have the space for floppy drives. So if somebody want to have floppy drive, he just cant

[Killen]

There used to be jokes and articles on floppies in those days. Thats no more now. I remember the joke 'Floppy Diks'.

[manishdk]

There used to be jokes and articles on floppies in those days. Thats no more now. I remember the joke 'Floppy Diks'.

Floppy disks are dead! Long live floppy disks!

[T.J.]

I never liked the concept of Floppies. They were useless for long time storage. You store something in that and you find nothing in it after 2 days, or else the bloody disk will just format itself. God knows how!

[Yogesh]

Oh, i remenber the days i used to use a bunch of floppies to install softwares in my PC. That used to be so funny. Like for example 31 disks for installing MS Office

See how time changed everything. Now you can have bunch of softwares in a single disk