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@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.