From Metro.co.uk:

“After 36 years and billions of sales, the floppy disk is to join the video player, cassette deck and film camera on technology’s scrapheap.

The 9cm piece of plastic will no longer be available from Britain’s biggest computer retailer.

PC World announced last night it would stop selling the disks when stocks ran out.“

Oldies like myself remember the good ol’ days (they weren’t that great really) when we had to load Jazz Jackrabbit or crappy ass DOS programs onto our sideways PCs with monitors on top via hard pieces of plastic. We remember the times when you could only fit 1.3 MB of porn onto your friend borrowed disk and look at in the comfort of dad’s office. We’ll miss you floppy but not really.

[via Metro]

1. Shadloon says:
   January 31st, 2007 at 9:07 am

   I’ll remember taking them apart, only to remember I had shit on them. Or locking other peoples and watching them flip.

   Or frigging formating them from PC to MAC and vice versa.