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Oh man. I remember Zip drives. They could be slow as fuck but they stored a lot for the time.

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>In a market that evolves as quickly as this one, it's interesting to realize how many interesting inventions have been lost to time over the years, many of which we may never even have heard of. Today, removable storage is all about USB drives or external SSDs and HDDs (which also connect to a computer via USB), but most will remember DVDs, CDs, and even floppy disks.

Oh man. I remember Zip drives. They could be slow as fuck but they stored a lot for the time. Archive: https://archive.today/YiLxk From the post: >>In a market that evolves as quickly as this one, it's interesting to realize how many interesting inventions have been lost to time over the years, many of which we may never even have heard of. Today, removable storage is all about USB drives or external SSDs and HDDs (which also connect to a computer via USB), but most will remember DVDs, CDs, and even floppy disks.
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I had a couple! They were the it thing for a little while, I mean man, a thick floppy disk that could hold 100mb! Iomega made the blue ones like in the image; they were such a pain and expensive for the time.

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Yeah, I only had access to one when they were "on their way out" but it was still awesome to be able to move even that much data quickly with something you could put in a backpack. People don't get how much things have changed over the years. Now you can get a micro SD card that is like 2 TB+

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Remembering getting up on Saturday and watching C-Net and they'd talk about computers? Good times.

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Ziiiiii, ziiiii, click click click.