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Guys, remember floppy disks? I was a little too young for that, but I do remember my parents old 1999 HP Pavilion that I used for educational CD-ROM games in the mid-2000s had a floppy disk slot. Japan used floppy disks for internal government operations up until this year. Crazy stuff, that an obsolete technology that was last made during the early 2010s has been in use for decades in Japan.
HP Pavilion (not mine)
Quote from BBC (< 20% of article length for copyright and fair-usages reasons):
"It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices, with more than 1,000 regulations requiring their use."
HP Pavilion (not mine)
Japan's government finally says goodbye to floppy disks
The use of the floppy disk, which was still used in some government agencies in Japan, has now been scrapped.
Quote from BBC (< 20% of article length for copyright and fair-usages reasons):
"It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices, with more than 1,000 regulations requiring their use."