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[–] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If young people anywhere would see floppies, I'm guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They're notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.

I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago

Two that come to mind: Deutsche Bahn still transfers the seat reservation database to the trains using diskettes. And San Francisco Muni uses 5.25 Floppies for their light rail trains.