As far as I am concerned it wasn't CD and internet but USB storage getting really cheap in 2001 ~ 2002: it fulfilled all the same use cases as the floppy, didn'

As far as I am concerned it wasn't CD and internet but USB storage getting really cheap in 2001 ~ 2002: it fulfilled all the same use cases as the floppy, didn't require special hardware, was more reliable and had more storage capacity.