What ARE these thigns?????

Charlotte · 2011-12-21 02:40:26

Ok guys so I was cleaning out my closet and i found a box of these little plastic square things and I have like NO IDEA what they are!!!

Do you have any idea what these things might be?? I thought they would be square frisbees but they don't fly very well at all!!!

Anonus · 2011-12-21 02:43:29

They're floppy disks. They're not frisbees.

Charlotte · 2011-12-21 02:46:01

Floppy disks? What are they for?

Anonus · 2011-12-21 02:46:25

Old computers from before you were born used them. No more.

Charlotte · 2011-12-21 02:50:23

But why would an old computer need a square frisbee?

Justice4243 · 2011-12-21 02:54:52

Funny that the save icon is still these little disks yet computers aren't even sold with them anymore.

lee4hmz · 2011-12-21 02:58:35

Charlotte: Years ago, back before people had the Internet or those funny USB key things or even the shiny round discs, they used these to move stuff from one computer to another. They didn't hold much; something that would take only a few seconds to get off of the Internet would need lots and lots of these just for that one file!

They were also slow, and the drives they went into made funny noises!

Old computers sure are weird, aren't they?

Imipolex G · 2011-12-21 10:35:41

I still meet people who use those.

I'm not kidding.

Obā-san · 2011-12-21 10:49:24

^Whoa.

Imipolex G · 2011-12-21 10:55:15

One of them is 80 years old, though.

Obā-san · 2011-12-21 10:56:05

OIC

Imipolex G · 2011-12-21 10:59:20

The person, I mean. Not the disk.

Obā-san · 2011-12-21 11:02:02

I figured.

lee4hmz · 2011-12-21 12:43:53

I still use them sometimes, though it's mainly because I actually like playing with DOS.

Ace Rimmer · 2011-12-21 12:45:27

Theres a company in the UK that sells 5 million of these a year

Imipolex G · 2011-12-21 13:04:31

Now this is the real stuff.

Obā-san · 2011-12-21 13:27:27

3M!!!! ^w^

Justice4243 · 2011-12-21 16:42:45

Tnu1138 · 2011-12-21 21:35:47

There was a day where nobody would have ever imagined you'de need a whole Megabyte for your hard drive.

Imipolex G · 2011-12-21 21:41:12

^^lol

My dad used to have a computer with a 20 MB hard drive. Man, that was huge.

Tnu1138 · 2011-12-21 21:43:04

For his day it wuld be like having twenty Terrabytes

King_Friday · 2011-12-22 21:45:32

I think I've seen one of those square thingies on an old X-Files episode...

And then again:

One more reason to hate Modern Art. Dali damn you!

Justice4243 · 2011-12-22 21:59:45

It would have been much more impressive if they had gotten a picture without painting anything.

This is just regular painting with disks as the canvas.

Anonus · 2011-12-22 22:08:36

I think it looks cool, but I guess I am easily impressed.

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Justice4243 · 2011-12-23 00:37:23

I stand by my statement that the artist hasn't done anything but make a really large portrait.

Imipolex G · 2011-12-23 00:38:54

It's a nice portrait, though.

Justice4243 · 2011-12-23 00:40:00

But painting it on disks doesn't really add anything to it.

King_Friday · 2011-12-23 00:44:55

DALI DAMN YOU ALL!

Justice4243 · 2011-12-23 00:50:49

*gasp*

Obviously Dragon Ball Multiverse got the idea of their latest strip from that Dali photo:

...Obviously.

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