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What kind of sense is there in storing your floppies with the shutter at the top?
the seals weren't that good so storing them facing down for long periods of time made them prone to data leaks.
It was the way of The Ancestors.
Do not cite the Deep Magic to me! I was there when it was written!
What? You want to stair at some indistinguishable grey rectangle instead of this cool mechanical flap?
There were supposed to be labels on them. That was half the fun if opening a new floppy. And a solid third of them would have been erased AOL disks.