THIS MAY COME as a surprise, but up until last month the Japanese government was still asking its citizens to use floppy disks when submitting documents.
All that is no more though, as they’ve officially scrapped 1,034 rules that required their use, with Digital Minister Taro Kono declaring they have “won the war on floppy disks”.
First created in 1971, a floppy disk worked by storing data on a thin flexible disk enclosed in a square plastic shell.
Sony stopped manufacturing floppy disks in 2011.
So today we’re asking: Have you ever used a floppy disk?
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