It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still asked to submit documents to the government using the outdated storage devices ...

Japan’s Digital ... the demise of the floppy disk. "We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28," Kono told Reuters earlier today. The milestone, decades after the storage medium’s heyday ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which ... their nuclear weapons force. In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war ...

Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy.

Floppies may be big in Japan, but nostalgic and/or needful Stateside ... who fancies himself the ‘last man standing in the floppy disk business’. Who are we to argue? By the way, Tom has ...