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Japan struggles to give up floppy disks and fax machines for the digital age
- eimrine 4y agoWhy faxes and floppies are bad? All what is coming to my mind is that faxes may overspend paper and floppies are slow, but do they deserve to deprecate them? For example, if to consider USB flashes as a better medium than floppies, keep in mind that USB2 may be deprecated as well - and let me guess - another deprecation is coming?
- jethronethro 4y agoThey're considered bad because they're old technology, and that newer and better tech exists. Floppies and faxes might not be shiny and glamourous or require other peoples' computers to work, but they do work. And well. The tech world pushes the narrative that everything new is better, and that everything old (or older) is for dinosaurs or should go the way of the dinosaurs. Because, you know, progress and innovation and all of those buzzwords.
- billybuckwheat 4y agoFor the same reason email's bad and dead or dying ...