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It just occurred to me that younger developers may not see the whole joke here…
For those unaware, a magnet would corrupt/destroy the contents on the floppy disk.
First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.
Why do i always gets so extreamly nostalgic every time something from the 80s and 90s are posted... I guess everyone is like that, stuff from their childhood remains loved.
I think also because it was a fresh field, nobody knew IT so it was exciting. It was like a small interest, similar to collecting stamps or something.
I use my old floppys as coasters!
Bruh, what? Younger millennials (aka 30-40 yo) were born/raised in the 90's. I find your claim hard to believe.
I'm in that group and I still dealt with floppies as a kid despite my family being poor at the time
Old people still aren't quite ready to understand that the oldest Gen Zs are 28.
And 28 isn't old enough to occupy "most devs".
It's not an issue if age, it's an issue of reading comprehension
Ive never used a flippy disk but i did get the joke. Its silly and straight forward enough that im tempted to make one for my house lmao
A lot of older data storage was very magnet sensitive, so it wasnt too hard to figure out
For the younger generation it might be a philosophical experience, because that is, The Icon of Saving!
Sounds like something worth questing for! (Ethereal choir singing)
I was informed everything was stored on the cloud. Why would we need these things called "floppy disks" (which don't like floppy at all)?
/s just in case
I've never tried it. Is it actually easy to do that with a fridge magnet? Like people say a magnet will destroy a modern HDD but in reality it would take a massively dangerous magnet to do that. Like not anything you could buy as a consumer.
Younger people are not stupid, a technician that's able to write software knows what a floppy disk is. I also know how a phonograph cylinder works and they went out of time a little longer ago.
I never suggested they were stupid. Just that they may not know the details. So I explained it.
Yeah, there's always somebody that might learn something new by coming across it for the first time. :D
If there was an internet meme based on the premise that somone is trying to play a record with a bent needle, I would probably need someone from the generation familiar with common phonograph problems to explain that to me. I didn't know bent needles were a common problem for phonographs until I looked it up just now.
*triggering intensifies