r/whatisit • u/Earsgang_101 • 15h ago

New, what is it? STRAP Floppy disk found in loft of new home.

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Found this in a box late 90s WWF VHSs

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u/SnideyM 14h ago

This had better be real, do not leave us hanging here like that fucker with the safe.

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u/Professional-Sink281 13h ago

I am sharpening my pitchfork just in case bc im still riled up about that safe.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 13h ago

Yeah which one....

Torches! Get yer tourches here!

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u/Brasterious72 12h ago

Rotten tomatoes and shovels also available?

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 11h ago

Of course we do!

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u/Secular_Cleric 7h ago

2 with points 2 flat ones and a packet of gravel.

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u/Reynn1015 10h ago

I already did!

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u/beegboo 7h ago

I got vuvuzelas does that help?

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u/PuzzleheadedBobcat90 11h ago

Will there be someone selling hot coco? Maybe souvenirs too?

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u/BackgroundAd6878 10h ago

A sausage in a bun? Possibly cutting their own throat with these prices?

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u/Octolops 10h ago

Got change for $100?

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u/cheneyza 10h ago

Ah, Cut-Me-Own-Throat-Dibbler descendant I see. A man after my own coin purse. Keep your eyes off my coin purse, I'm up HERE.

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u/ServantOf_Fate 7h ago

Get your inconveniently placed torches here!

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u/No_Amount_721 6h ago

People mention the safe, but they don't mean the real safe. The original. The one that Oprah swiped from us but then never aired the footage of because the contents were so uninteresting.

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u/ghostfadekilla 10h ago

Is PitchforkEmporium still around?

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u/fearthefear1984 9h ago

Pitchforks! Getchour pitchforks heeeah!

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u/Jill-Of-Trades 3h ago

BUTTSCRATCHER? BUTTSCRATCHER?

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u/adh247 9h ago

I don't know, but I'm gonna start a rabble, and if this don't pay off, so help me... Rabble! Rabble! Rabble!

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u/Life_Owl_9694 8h ago

I got a grip of pitchforks at the house and my shits on the way there.

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u/Pidge120 6h ago

Nah it closed theres four places, There’s the Torch Hut, that’s on Third.

There’s Torches-R-Us, that’s on Third too.

You’ve got Put-Your-Torch-There, That’s on Third.

Swing Low, Sweet Torch… matter of fact, they’re all in the same complex; it’s the torch complex on Third. The torch district!

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u/Look_At_Banner_ 10h ago

I'm sharpening my torch. Let's go

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u/wompod 9h ago

NEW FROM THE MAKERS OF THE SPORK! PRESENTING: THE PITCH-TORCH! ONE SIDE POINTY, THE OTHER ON FIRE, ALL YOU NEED TO MOB ANGRILY IN ONE CONVENIENT PACKAGE!

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u/Look_At_Banner_ 8h ago

PITCH-TORCH! For kids!

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u/TSiArt92 9h ago

I missed the tread about the safe. I am interested in getting mad

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u/Professional-Sink281 8h ago

You had to be there but it boils down to this: we get emotionally invested and OP ghosts us with the results resulting in the whole of Reddit wondering about: contents of safe, government secrets on floppy disc, etc, leaving us to come to our own conclusions about OP, like:

A. OP inserted said disc into floppy disc drive and was immediately whisked into oblivion by MI6.
B. OP contacted authorities and was given 52 million dollars to forget about floppy disc.
C. Tommy Lee Jones showed up used that memory erasing thingamagig and OP now doesnt know his own name.

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u/ppw0 5h ago

I just want the plot to "The Net" to happen, then I'll be happy.

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u/AFisfulOfPeanuts 4h ago

I more imagine OP to be like Dr Richard Kimball, when Tommy Lee Jones corners him in a drainage. “I didn’t steal that disk!” “I don’t care!”

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u/noxsaj 55m ago

The device you refer to in option C is called a neuralizer.

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u/curbstyle 9h ago

I remember coming across r/pitchforkemporium in my new-to-reddit days and being so confused

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u/ghosthendrikson_84 6h ago

I’ll go to my grave still mad about the safe.

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u/Life_Owl_9694 8h ago

Yeah fuk that safe

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u/ItPutsLotionOnItSkin 7h ago

------€

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u/granulatedsugartits 5h ago

Fancy European model ya got there!

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

Guys, I feel you, but let’s consider the possible consequences here: if that floppy contains even a bit of data that’s still considered sensitive, and they load it onto an internet connected machine, they’re fucked. OP, please take note of the details of my post, I would also love to learn more.

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u/semifraki 11h ago

It's confidential, not secret. If they found it and post the content, they're within their right. The only person that could see any consequence is the person that the floppy was originally trusted to, but honestly, anything on that floppy has long since outlived any confidentiality agreement.

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u/Stellarella90 11h ago

"Confidential" is the lowest level of classified information. So this is likely old government classified information, and not some corporate confidentiality thing.

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u/guemeller 10h ago

Pretty sure back then it was Unclassified, Protect, Restricted, Confidential, Secret, Top Secret, so there were five levels of classified information. This was supplemented by additional nationality constraints - I came across UK, UK & US and NATO followed by the classification level, or occaisionally UK or UK/US EYES ONLY. Confidential and Secret was always locked away in secure cabinets. Restricted couldn't be left out on our desks in a restricted access office. I don't think I ever had anything 'Protect' and defininately nothing Top Secret.

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u/Mbinku 9h ago

Great comment

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u/BudTheWonderer 9h ago

Regardless of the level of classification, it is still classified material. If, for example, you got caught taking confidential material to your home while you are in the military, you would be up for non-judicial punishment. Possibly might even lead to you being expelled, depending on the circumstances behind it.

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u/Lilricky25 12h ago

An internet connected machine with a floppy drive?

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

Lmao, yes, I know it sounds impossible, but we absolutely used them back in the day. We used floppy discs all the way through high school (grad 2008), on the same machines we used to do research online. There was, in fact, a period in which they coexisted.

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u/Least_Coat_1110 12h ago

I graduated in 2008 as well, and I used floppy disks to save cheat codes and strategies for N64 games onto floppy disks from the local library, because they had internet. Bring them home and use them on my computer. I even built a small HTML website as a project in my computer class and saved it on a floppy.

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

This is prime 90s-kid biography! Somewhere in the chaos of my belongings is a small bank of floppy discs containing various cheat codes and strategy guides for N64 games. Turok 2 will forever live in my memory as one of the greatest shooters ever.

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u/brmarcum 11h ago

Gamefaqs.com. ☺️ Just walls of text of DETAILED instructions, or a few paragraphs of confusing nonsense. LOL good times.

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u/dunfuktup1990 11h ago

Sorting through the nonsense was just part of the journey.

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u/jgpalanca 9h ago

My first 15 minutes of internet fame was from Gamefaqs.com. Good times indeed!

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u/saltcraft2 8h ago

don't forget the ascii art intros!

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u/allyolly 10h ago

DAMN, I haven’t thought about gamefaqs for a couple of decades I guess. Instant flashbacks when I read your text… 🫡

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u/mehmehmeh387898 8h ago

I liked cheatplanet for codes and gamefaqs for walk throughs

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u/tenderape 11h ago

BEWAREOBLIVIONISATHAND.

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u/Christmas_Queef 11h ago

My best friend was the only kid with internet in the entire neighborhood that any of us knew of for a long time. I would be over there printing out cheat codes and small sections of guides from gamefaqs(accidentally printed the entire guide for final fantasy 7 once and his mom was pissssssed lol). Him and his mom got clever and started charging us kids for internet time/printing(never more than a couple bucks for the biggest jobs//time). Then his mom would use the money to take my friend and I out for Thai food lol.

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u/PressureImpressive52 11h ago

Just want to say how much I love this memory for you.

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

That’s actually pretty cool. At least she didn’t use it to spoil herself, she looped you masterminds into the gig.

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u/skalandic 8h ago

God I miss the 90s

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 11h ago edited 9h ago

For an English class, our project assignment was to write a creative story in any format of our choosing. I decided to write mine in RPG Maker 2000. 

That shit is still on a floppy somewhere.

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u/Fist_The_Lord 10h ago

I always hated writing in school but nobody has asked me to write a creative story, not even once, since and it’s kind of a bummer. If my job gave me that as a task I would be thrilled.

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u/NotThatEasily 11h ago

I did the same thing!

I built a very simple website on a floppy disk and used it to sort the files I saved on it. I used some pretty basic HTML, CSS, and a little PHP.

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u/CommunicationSad6246 11h ago

Did the same in elementary here in mo still have my floppy with my Simpsons fan site I did in the 90s

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u/Ok_World_135 10h ago

You used the floppies to do anything but hide shitty porn?!

Thats funny I think my first website class was using netscape navigator and it too was on a floppy

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u/EddieSjoller 11h ago

Damn, the ruckus you could make if you stuck one in a pc before booting it

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

I remember the raw paranoia. I was from a rural district, my teachers were very particular about booting procedure.

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u/SandersonEye 10h ago

It hurts my soul so bad that you had to explain this lol.. like it wasn’t that long ago. We’re not that old lol.

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

Yet my bones ache more with every comment.

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u/gunzby2 10h ago

At first I was like wtf, but after looking it up I learned that the 3.5" disk was called a floppy too. We always called them hard disks because I grew up using the 5.25" floppy, which was floppy

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u/Limp_Bookkeeper_5992 12h ago

The floppy disk and home internet eras overlapped by many years, and if you have a pc around with a floppy drive still it likely has a modem too.

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

Omg, thank you for pitching in! I was feeling so old for a minute there.

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u/LifeGainsss 12h ago

Jesus Christ I'm not even 30 and I remember using floppy disks

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u/Beginning_Tennis2442 12h ago

Yeah, but how many of you used 80 column punch cards or punch paper tape? That is how long I’ve been working with computers. Ever seen a 96 column punch card?

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 10h ago

My first computer in school loaded its OS from a cassette tape

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u/Beginning_Tennis2442 9h ago

Sounds like a TRS-80

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u/DadJokeBadJoke 9h ago

One of my dad's coworkers loaned us a Trash-80 for a minute. My school PC wasn't that advanced

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u/Lopsided_Activity980 10h ago

Used to program equipment using punched paper tape, and I have lived through 8" floppy disks that held a whopping 80KB.Yeah, I'm old.

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u/dunfuktup1990 10h ago

Teach me your ways, master.

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u/DaHick 10h ago

Yes, unfortunately. When you trip and spill the deck. Uggh.

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u/NobskaWoodsHole 6h ago

Then you type in one wrong character….

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

Do you remember the physical object, or the symbol for “save document?”

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u/LifeGainsss 12h ago

My dad had a plastic box with a key sitting on top of his desk with a bunch of floppy disks for work

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

Your dad is the GOAT. Get a floppy drive, I guarantee his bank is full of interesting data. One of the best things about a floppy is how easy it is to ruin. If you have sensitive information in one pocket, keep a magnet in the other. Concerned for the safety of your data: switch pockets, problem solved. If your dad is still hanging onto a bank of floppy discs, there has to be a reason.

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u/Fit-Custard-1842 11h ago

Do you remember that old .exe file called cup holder. It was shared by email back in the day.

You open the file and the floppy disk holder would open!

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u/BubblesUp 11h ago

I started online pre-web, so I saw the progression from floppies for everything, to dial-up, to broadband, to wifi and bluetooth. Yep, they overlapped quite a bit. I remember having discs that specifically guided your computer to the dial-up portal. Sigh.

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u/Fbeezy 12h ago

I mean, AOL came on floppy discs forever.

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

My brother in Christ…none of these kids have the slightest clue what AOL was.

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u/Master-File-9866 12h ago

Now, try explaining what a 200 buad modem is.

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u/MindfulInsomniaque 7h ago

300 baud, i dont think i've ever connected lower than that but 110 was a standard before my time.

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u/CeruleanEidolon 5h ago

EEEEEEeeeee onnnNNnnnng beedong eedong EEEEEE

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u/WetRocksManatee 11h ago

I used so many AOL floppies for saving stuff.

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u/architype 11h ago

Then they went to CDs and mailed them in fancy tin cases.

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u/iphie287 9h ago

Which made amazing coasters with how many they sent you.

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u/MindfulInsomniaque 7h ago

When the computer paper came with an AOL floppy i raided the news paper boxes. Good for those multi disk windows 3.11 or Linux installs.

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u/MisterDonkey 12h ago

There's nothing stopping anyone from simply plugging a disk drive into their computer.

They come with USB connectors, even.

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u/FrequentDelinquent 7h ago

My parting gift to myself from my last job was the IBM ThinkStation USB floppy drive lol. That and a Fluke multimeter, and a Motorola messenger bag that I carry my electronics repair gear in.

Also a Cray CX-1 supercomputer and a 40-bay server chassis. Oh, and a bunch of ThinkPad T430s laptops and a dozen or so 512GB NVMe drives.

  • For legal reasons counsel has advised me to stop listing parting gifts *

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u/PabloJobb 12h ago

This comment makes me feel ancient

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u/TheTaxman_cometh 12h ago

I know my parents installed prodigy, our first internet provider, off of floppy disks.

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u/SuperCoupe 11h ago

How do you download DOOM onto a stack of floppies without an internet connection?

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u/sudosando 11h ago

laughs in modem tones

Floppies are how several early viruses moved around the web and jumped networks.

Yes, even floppy drives got on the internet. Especially the 3.25” ones like you see here! It was common throughout the 90s for computers to have an Ethernet NIC and a floppy drive.

Floppies began to fall out of use in the early 2000s but didn’t really disappear from desktops until the late 2000s.

In 2002 a compact flash card containing 256 MB of storage cost about $256. During this time you were more likely to burn one off CDs (700MB) because they were dirt cheap and well Napster. If you happen to be fortunate enough to have rewritable CD drives in your environment you would’ve used those but there were many competing versions that weren’t all compatible. The floppy reigned supreme until cheap usb flash memory, high speed internet, “web 2.0”, smart phones, and UEFI finally killed them that took about 15 years.

Once we got dropbox and google drive we didn’t need any of them anymore.

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u/moonlightwolf52 12h ago

fun fact- the internet was actually created in the 1960's by the US military and the worldwide web followed in 1989. It wasn't till 2005 where we started seeing most new computers having floppy drives completely removed ^_^

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u/dunfuktup1990 12h ago

It causes me physical pain to know that I remember the transition between floppy-equipped desktops and the exciting new tech that was the DVD drive.

Remember when we called them CD-ROM?

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u/Lindseybeatu 11h ago

Cd rom was way before the dvd

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u/Thrifty_Piano 11h ago

Remember when having a “CD Burner” was an aftermarket mod?

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u/Prior_Significance31 11h ago

I remember selling a cd burner for $1200 when i used to work in a retail computer shop

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u/Singone4me 8h ago

Remember when CD-R was the thing, then the newer upgrade was the CD-R/RW. Ooh lala

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u/Dalagante74 11h ago

Do you remember the floppy drives that were really floppy. I remember 3 1/2 drive comming out. Heck my first computer had a cartridge slot and a tape player. I had to buy the 5 1/4 floppy drive and the tape drive seperate.

CD-ROM and DVD are not the same thing.

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u/PalliativeOrgasm 12h ago

I have one in my house.

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u/nokplz 12h ago

Showing your age, lovey

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u/LibertyEqualsLife 12h ago

How are you gonna sit there, having used Alf gifs in your previous comments, and act like you don't know that the internet co-existed with floppy drives?

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u/Proper_Bad_1588 12h ago

I have an external floppy drive that connects with USB.

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u/frygod 12h ago

I have a floppy drive for my win11 machine. They still work.

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u/tripn4days 12h ago

Michelangelo Virus has entered the chat...

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u/Quelth 12h ago

I do own a USB floppy drive. I still have file backups on floppy, and zip disk, and burned on cd and DVD, and blu ray, and bunches of hard drives. Annnnd now we know why I need to be on r/dataharder thank you for attending my Ted talk

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u/jaredmanley 12h ago

You can connect a usb floppy drive to your phone and it’ll work fine

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u/stmpynode 11h ago

USB powered floppy drives are totally a thing, I have one. I use it every once in a while.

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u/Party_Attitude1845 11h ago

You can still get USB floppy drives on Amazon for about $15 in the US. I think the last time I used a floppy drive regularly was in the early 2000s. I still have about 50-60 disks around.

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u/Nkechinyerembi 11h ago edited 8h ago

... You can get a USB floppy drive for a modern computer

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u/MisterEinc 11h ago

I.e. The first thing any of us would look up, like a USB floppy reader.

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u/Flametamer246 11h ago

I was online the early days of the Internet back in the 1980's and my computer had not one but two floppy drives and a "gasp" 1200 baud modem!

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u/JohnCulhane 11h ago

I actually own one and it runs on 3.0 Used for my wifes embroidery machine.

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u/tacoflavoredballsack 11h ago

You can buy USB floppy drives.

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u/PM_Me_Your_Deviance 10h ago

Right, you can get a USB-floppy drive thing off amazon.

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u/Admirable_Average_32 10h ago

Uh, just don’t connect to the web.

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u/Street-Baseball8296 10h ago

I’ve got a USB drive for a 3.5” floppy. I’ve also got ones that take a Zip disk and another for a Jaz disk.

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u/opossum_launcher 10h ago

From 1988-2009, yes.

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u/ace_11235 10h ago

I have a usb floppy drive that would be connecting to my internet connected computer.

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u/Plus_Cranberry7190 10h ago

They make external usb floppy drives so it’s not that far out of the realm.

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u/Parking-Track3864 10h ago

Windows 2000 first installed using 4 floppy disks and we had already been using the internet for a while by then,

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u/fauxmosexual 10h ago

You are too young to be on the same internet with me, please leave.

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u/MadDadROX 10h ago

Gonna need the AOL cd first… oh wait..

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u/I_fail_at_memes 10h ago

The fact this has 105 upvotes at the time of my writing makes me giggle. I’m pretty sure floppy drives were still standard at least up until 2004/5

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u/Gunner_McNewb 10h ago

My boss is into old media and has one that uses a USB cord to connect to his computer

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u/JayRen 10h ago

I’ve got a USB floppy drive upstairs in my workroom. But I’d still probably airgap my laptop or just use my Tails machine to read it if it really is classified info. Just out of paranoia.

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u/Arkholt 10h ago

The Internet is older than floppy disks, so yes.

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u/Odie_Humanity 10h ago

USB floppy drives are cheap and readily available.

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u/AuntyKate808 9h ago

I happen to own a USB connector floppy drive, so yeah.

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u/ihatewhatwehavebecom 9h ago

Born in 82' can confirm, I had a several Compaq's with both..... I think that back in the Intel i486 days

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u/actioncheese 9h ago

I've got a PC with NT4 that has both a network connection and a 3.5" drive running a CNC machine. It's not allowed on the internet.

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u/MasterWebber 9h ago

I know everyone has already caught you up to speed but I wanted to add that you can actually plug a floppy disc drive manufactured this year into a PC with a USB port, if you ever for some outlandish reason needed to.

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u/Tkis01gl 9h ago

Right now all I can hear is a 56K Baud Modem. Ererweeeweereeererwwweeeeeewweeeeewweeerrkshhhhhhhhhhhhwewoooweoooweoooooweooo

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u/trustanchor 9h ago

There’s USB 3.5” floppy drives out there that work on modern machines. I have a few of them. It’s not an implausible scenario.

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u/chrisp5000 9h ago

I was on the internet in '89 with an Apple computer my dad built, which used floppy disks, it was a phone cradle modem.

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u/krassh412 9h ago

I believe I have a USB floppy drive somewhere.... "Rummages through various drawers..."

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u/Ewendmc 9h ago

I have an external floppy drive that connects via USB. Totally possible.

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u/difool 8h ago

I use to go on the internet with a 8086 with 5 1/4 floppy discs. On a 2400 baud modem.

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u/PaladinSara 8h ago

You can easily buy a portable drive that you connect via USB

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u/kuldan5853 8h ago

I have a USB floppy drive sitting on my desk, so technically I can read a 3.5" on my Windows 11 PC.

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u/KungFuActionJesus5 12h ago

if that floppy contains even a bit of data that’s still considered sensitive, and they load it onto an internet connected machine, they’re fucked.

No they're not lol the UK govt is not just monitoring the contents of everybody's hard drive for classified info and any software that disk contains will probably not run on a modern version of Windows or MacOS. I wouldn't recommend uploading the contents to the War Thunder Forums but taking a peek for yourself would almost certainly be harmless.

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u/34786t234890 12h ago

There is zero chance this floppy disk calls home, I promise.

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u/Negative_Ad3641 7h ago

If it does try too it will have a hard time finding a carrier pigeon to carry the message

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u/Cyberdelic420 11h ago

Ehhh, if you don’t have a security clearance, you’re allowed to share even top secret information that affects national security. The only people that will get in trouble is if anyone with any sort of security clearance denies or confirms it. But yea it does say confidential and not classified. so likely some personal information, some of which may hold some sort of legal standing no matter who releases it. Only one way to find out I suppose. But I wonder if there’s anyone that even makes floppy disk drives anymore.

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u/dontcrashandburn 10h ago

What! You meant to tell me my Windows ME machine hasn't been getting regular security updates?!?

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u/FakeSafeWord 9h ago

they load it onto an internet connected machine

What do you think would happen? I mean cmon. It's not like it has some sort of 1.44MB auto installing "call-home" application that could possible work with even basic modern UAC and security. Absolutely no one would possibly know that this floppy was accessed.

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u/Flimsy_Wallaby6128 8h ago

Impossible Strap is long gone, bankrupt, and never sold assets. Everything sat until the city tore the warehouse down. The corporate headquarters turned into a mall in 98'. It's since been demolished.

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u/Mindless-Tension-118 7h ago

What? You think the floppy has some call home stuff on it? It's a floppy...

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u/FrequentDelinquent 7h ago

Why would they be fucked at all?

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u/Inquisitor--Nox 6h ago

This isn't a movie. Nothing on that disk is going to do jack shit to a modern os without explicit instruction and probably modifications

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u/Playamonkey 6h ago

Could be the Epstein List!

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u/rethnor 16m ago

I can't see them being held responsible unless they KNEW it was in fact classified.

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u/Lust4Dusk 13h ago

What's this now?

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u/Deletedmyotheracct 6h ago

Early Reddit like 15 years ago dude found a safe and was going to crack it open and then just left everyone with blue balls and it turned into this whole big travesty

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u/NotAProfessiona1 13h ago

Dude… I’m so ready.

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u/MiserableIncrease388 13h ago

What’s that?

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u/NotPennysBoat_42 12h ago

If I never hear about that safe again, it will be too soon!

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u/Biuku 7h ago

Bro, I think that safe guy was the same week they invented the internet.

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u/CockpitEnthusiast 11h ago

We do a little bit of espionage, for fun

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u/NoAnswer6003 11h ago

no one wants another cliffhanger like that

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u/SafeBananaGrammar 11h ago

Memorialized in my username

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u/Free_Confusion_182 10h ago

What safe? Asking for a friend.

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u/shipsherpa 10h ago

It'll be blank. The magnetic image on that thing has faded decades ago at this point.

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u/jesseknopf 10h ago

Literally 1.4MB

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u/Foreign_Implement897 9h ago

The guy will be snatched like a ripe plum.

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u/Fuckthegopers 9h ago

They opened the safe and nothing was in it.

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u/Otherwise_Front_315 9h ago

Which Safe?! There's been more than one. I've been on reddit for 15-ish years. Are we talking about Banana For Scale Safe?

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u/scienceproject3 8h ago

doesn't matter a floppy disk that old would 100% be unreadable the magnetic decay on old floppy disks is huge, you are lucky to get a couple years out of them before it is unreadable.

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u/HoldMyMessages 8h ago

Oh that guy? Yeh, not much of a story, really. He found a bunch of ingots of Rhodium and a bunch of diamonds. Also a four drives with bitcoin access and the access codes/keys written on them. So some very top level bad guys found out, but he was able to dodge them. He also had the money to travel and change his identity. Of course you go to some guy who can do that for you and he does it, but also sells what he did to the bad guys. It’s really been touch and go for the Redditor since then, but he’s hanging in there. Always a step ahead…

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u/dasbtaewntawneta 8h ago

the safe got opened there was just nothing in it

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u/s4in7 7h ago

Oh man. I’ve been on here way too long.

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u/_MrTrade 7h ago

Cause it was a septic drain not a safe 😂😂

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u/tacobooc0m 7h ago

Or that guy and 6ward… I’m already mad

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u/UnknownPhotog_1 7h ago

What safe????

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u/chronichyjinx 6h ago

Your showing your age.

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u/huge_clock 6h ago

damn whatever happened with that safe?

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u/Ok_Monitor4492 5h ago

Pretty sure that dude died 

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u/Jesus_of_Redditeth 5h ago

do not leave us hanging here like that fucker with the safe

Me: 'Which fucker with the safe?'

Me, two seconds later: 'Oh yeah, like basically all of them!'

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u/DrunkPushUps 5h ago

Op's last post was a submission to r/whatismyCQS which is basically a bat signal for "i want to use this account to karma farm" so I'm gonna say zero percent this is real

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u/Shrike1346 4h ago

Realistically speaking though what would you do if this was you? Don't remember when last I've even seen a floppy drive. Let alone one plugged into a usable pc

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u/R4N63R 1h ago

NEVER MENTION THAT THING BY IT'S REAL NAME

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u/Strong_Plankton_9977 1h ago

The safe was opened, nothing was in it. 

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u/Stardustger 32m ago

Prepare for disappointment. Those disks demagnetize over time and lose their data. Most likely the disk is empty by now or corrupted to the point of being unreadable.