• Saganaki@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    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.

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      4 months ago

      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.

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        4 months ago

        First thing i thought of, but yeah, most devs today have never held a disk like that.

        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

    • mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      Out of all possibility of people not understandibg this because magnet corrupt the disk, i actually didnt realise it was a magnet and thought it was sticked to a wall with some black sponge on top and was totallt condused what’s the joke