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A shocking amount of the world still runs on floppy disks.

Those 3.5-inch save icons are a million years old, and nobody really wants to keep using them. And yet: specialty embroidery machines, some commercial airliners, and a surprising number of other things still can’t work any other way. There are even people still making and selling new floppies! There’s new tech all the time, but old tech never truly dies.

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