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They never were important, although Steve Jobs certainly tried to make them so (see his failure with NeXt).
by laureny 13y ago
They never were important, although Steve Jobs certainly tried to make them so (see his failure with NeXt).
- 6thSigma 13y agoThey were very important. There was a large gap in the mid to late 90s - early 2000s where we would have had to use floppy disks if not for CDs. Broadband wasn't widely available until the mid 2000s.
- ceejayoz 13y agoHuh? Never important? Jumping from 1.44 MB to 700 MB of storage made a pretty big difference in all sorts of media.
- mikeash 13y agoUh, what? Did I just hallucinate software stores filled to the ceiling with optical media?
- thristian 13y agoYou're thinking of read-write magneto-optical drives (like the NeXT cube had), but the rest of the thread is discussing optical drives (CDs and DVDs).