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Although floppy disks are still used by different industries, including some music labels with unique marketing campaigns, the days of this antiquated technology are numbered. Some industries are ...

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“We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!” Digital Minister Taro Kono, who has been vocal about wiping out fax machines and other analog technology in government, told Reuters in a ...

Japan began moving away from the 1900s storage devices, magnetic disks encased in plastic, just two years ago, when Taro Kono, the country’s digital minister, declared a “war on floppy disks”.

TOKYO — 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 modernise the ...

Japan ’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks. The country has removed the technology from all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone ...

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.

Floppy disks were first introduced in the 1960s but fell out of favor with computer users in the 1990s when more efficient data storage methods arrived.

Speaking to Reuters, Kono stated that, as of June 28, Japan's Digital Agency had removed 1,034 regulations in which floppy disks still played a part, although there is apparently still one lurking ...