Huh, floppies have been gone that long? Back when I was doing my BSCS (1998-2002), we turned in our assignments in a folder containing a printed code listing a

Huh, floppies have been gone that long? Back when I was doing my BSCS (1998-2002), we turned in our assignments in a folder containing a printed code listing and a 3.5" floppy disk - there were better ways to move small amounts of source code around even then, so I suspect it had something to do with some of the more eccentric CS professors insisting on using old machines (I saw old 68k UNIX boxen (including NextStations) in some offices). I actually don't think I used floppies much anymore after college. Most of the new hires we get these days say they turned in coding assignments by pushing them to a git server. The US Government had a big thing for ZIP drives for a while. Saw those in wide use when I entered the defense contracting world in the late 2000s.