• Pnut@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    This reminds me of the “save” logo in almost every app. Apparently I’m one of the only people left alive that knows what a floppy disk was.

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      8 days ago

      Idk, my high school aged kid is using floppies to load software onto a piece of equipment in their shop class at school. It also accepts usb (but only at usb 1 speeds, and exfat formatted) .

      The kids are into using floppies of different colors much like I was in my first comp sci class in high school.

      It’s not ubiquitous but it isn’t quite as unknown as it was.

      I mean I knew what an 8 track was in the 90s.

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    8 days ago

    I mentioned UHF to one of my (younger) coworkers, and he had no idea what that meant…

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        3 days ago

        Funnily enough, that’s how we got to that- several of us going out to lunch, I was driving, so my music, and one of the Weird Al polkas was playing, and he was asking who it was … even my kids have heard of Weird Al so me and the other old farts are trying to figure out if he’s messing with us or really didn’t know… So we were listing off Weird Al’s works, and UHF came up, we described the plot, he asked if UHF meant something in the context of a TV station, and that’s when we old farts crumbled into dust.