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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina I also knew them as floppy disks. Just 'disk' meant a lot of things—hard disk, floppy disk, compact disk—so you had to specify!
Also the disk was floppy, but the hard square case was not. 🤓
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina can confirm, am old, started out calling 5.25 disks floppies and when 3.5 came around we called them floppies too because hard disks were a different thing entirely
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina Interestingly enough, I had this very question as a kitten, and it was explained to me that even the 3.5s were "floppy" because the *actual disk inside the casing* was floppy! Like, the actual data carrying component was nonrigid, and that was the "disk" part referred to by the term.
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@misnina I also knew them as floppy disks. Just 'disk' meant a lot of things—hard disk, floppy disk, compact disk—so you had to specify!
Also the disk was floppy, but the hard square case was not. 🤓
@misnina This isn't coming from the same fools eating turnips raw on your Vintage Story server, is it?
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@misnina This isn't coming from the same fools eating turnips raw on your Vintage Story server, is it?
@thepi lol no tiktok
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@thepi lol no tiktok
@misnina oh right I forgot about those fools
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina FWIW I and everyone I knew *also* called them floppy disks despite them not being 5.5" floppies.
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@misnina I also knew them as floppy disks. Just 'disk' meant a lot of things—hard disk, floppy disk, compact disk—so you had to specify!
Also the disk was floppy, but the hard square case was not. 🤓
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@misnina can confirm, am old, started out calling 5.25 disks floppies and when 3.5 came around we called them floppies too because hard disks were a different thing entirely
@jordan @misnina There was a brief period of time where 3.5” was the “hard disk” that we had. 8” and 5.25” were the floppies.
The slang evolved as those floppies vanished from normal usage and actual hard drives were becoming the norm. We kept the term floppy for the 3.5” overall and those of us who used hard disk switched to keeping that for hard drives. Also, diskette was pretty common in usage too at that point. But diskette was not only common yet old by that point and referred to floppies also.
People will argue ad nauseam about why they used whatever slang. -
@misnina I also knew them as floppy disks. Just 'disk' meant a lot of things—hard disk, floppy disk, compact disk—so you had to specify!
Also the disk was floppy, but the hard square case was not. 🤓
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@OctaviaConAmore @misnina The computers themselves often used 'disk' to mean 'any storage medium', including both floppies & hard drives e.g. 'please insert disk 5'. Still do, as far as I know.
But in casual conversation there's more truth to saying that floppy disks were never called discs because they were square and not round.
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina they were in fact the floppies we were directed not to copy
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina In Finnish we call them
Lerppu 5.25" (Floppy)
Korppu 3.5" (Rusk)
Romppu CD-ROM (We just invented this word that has ROM in it and rhymes with previous words) -
@jordan @misnina There was a brief period of time where 3.5” was the “hard disk” that we had. 8” and 5.25” were the floppies.
The slang evolved as those floppies vanished from normal usage and actual hard drives were becoming the norm. We kept the term floppy for the 3.5” overall and those of us who used hard disk switched to keeping that for hard drives. Also, diskette was pretty common in usage too at that point. But diskette was not only common yet old by that point and referred to floppies also.
People will argue ad nauseam about why they used whatever slang.@robbienorlyn @jordan @misnina someone who wants to be pedantic should not do it halfway. They're not 3.5" diskettes, they're defined as 90mm by ECMA-125:
https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-125/
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina in French we called them "disquette" (pronounced exactly like "diskette"), a shorter and kinda cute term.
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@misnina In Finnish we call them
Lerppu 5.25" (Floppy)
Korppu 3.5" (Rusk)
Romppu CD-ROM (We just invented this word that has ROM in it and rhymes with previous words)In Polish any floppy disk was "dyskietka" despite the size (8/5.25/3.5/etc.).
Common jargon phrase was "flop".
You could hear "duża dyskietka" (big floppy) for 5.25" and "mała dyskietka" (small floppy) for 3.5" one. No idea was there a phrase for 8" ones.
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I'm going to go mad.
"the save icon is a floppy disk"
🤓 "The 3.5' diskettes were not floppy, we just called them discs"
👨 "I and literally everyone I knew called them floppy disks"
😡 "Discs evolved into many things like zip drives, there were a variety of terms!!"Yeah. And everyone called them floppy disks. You cannot attempt to rewrite the historical fact that there's an era in which these 💾 were called floppy disks. You don't get invisible brownie points for not calling them floppy disks.
@misnina I once took apart a 3.5" disk because I was a curious child - There *WAS* a floppy disk hidden in that protective case!
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I'm pretty sure I've heard "disk" being used to refer to hard drives, but never floppies 
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Truly, thank you.
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1. Greenland
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