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Floppy disks (or diskettes, as they are called in Spanish) were very important for my formation when I was a kid. I had a computer but I hadn't internet access
by 101008 4y ago
Floppy disks (or diskettes, as they are called in Spanish) were very important for my formation when I was a kid. I had a computer but I hadn't internet access at home (very expensive for my family), so I was going to the computer café two blocks away and I downloaded files into the diskette that then I was able to check at home. That's how I downloaded tutoriales (File > Save page as...) and a lot of stuff.
Things became better when I had 2 or 3 diskettes and I was able to download bigger files using Hacha, a free software to split large files. Of course, nothing was worse than arriving home and one of them failing.
As someone said in another comment, I miss the sound and the "physicality" of them. It reminds me of a time when you were offline by default, and you had to go online. Now it is, sadly, the other way around.
- lake_vincent 4y agoI remember actually exchanging floppy disks containing images (made in Paint, of course) with my friends via snail mail. It was the original version of Snapchat. Horrible latency.
- actionfromafar 4y agoWere some of them also, hrm, explicit in nature?
- lake_vincent 4y agoLol, no, I was way too young then! They were probably pictures of Power Rangers or Super Mario I drew, lmao. By the time I was of that age, we had the wonders of dial up internet and semi-scrambled adult TV channels. :')
- int_19h 4y agoFor what it's worth, BBS porn was a thing, as was sharing it on floppies.
- snvzz 4y agoSame story. I guess it's pretty common. What's odd is I used DD floppies, not HD floppies, because my only computer at home was an Amiga.