The floppy was the first portable storage device for computer users back in the day. Now, it has outlived its usefulness
Future generations won’t recognise the floppy disk. It’ll be as alien to them as cassettes are to today’s generation. But that doesn’t mean they won’t see it. They’ll see it whenever they click on the icon that is used to save a file on a typical Microsoft Office document.
(This story appears in the 30 July, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)