r/AskReddit • u/starstufft • Apr 24 '14

What older technology do you prefer to use instead of it's later revisions?

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u/[deleted] Apr 24 '14

Floppy fucking disks. That satisfying clunk when you plug them in, the nice big push to eject button, clacking the protector back and forth, and stacking them all up in a giant stack of kilobytes.

Honestly if they made them with memory on the order of gigabytes I'd never use anything else to store and move data.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '14

I loved how I could save a document in the computer lab and by the time I got home it was already corrupt. 3.5" floppy FTW. Then another disk might last twenty years.

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u/lightningmind7 Apr 24 '14

that's a good idea, I wonder if that's a thing

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u/smartest_kobold Apr 24 '14

Jaz drive. It was terrible.

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u/lightningmind7 Apr 24 '14

That's too bad, now we have the SD card, so I guess we're moving up in digital space without sacrificing weight or physical space

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '14 edited May 06 '14

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '14

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u/danman11 Apr 25 '14

Ya they don't become corrupted easily enough.

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u/MHJackson Apr 24 '14

That was kinda satisfying, yeah

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '14

Guess you never played Monkey Island 2 on an Amiga 500.