stackyFACTSBack in 2000, ditching your bulky floppy disks for a sleek plastic stick felt like living in a sci-fi movie. Of course, you paid fifty dollars for the absolute privilege of storing exactly two high-quality photos. It was an incredibly expensive piece of plastic that you were almost guaranteed to lose in the laundry within a week.
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Forget downloading programs or even inserting a floppy disk; you used to have to hit play on a Walkman. The very first consumer IBM PC in 1981 included an…
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The cheap promotional stick you got for free is just a dramatically inferior solid state drive. Both use exact same flash storage components to trap…
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Your phone currently holds 256 gigabytes of blurry concert photos and unused food delivery apps, which would have made you a billionaire hardware baron in…
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When thumb drives were first introduced, their primary selling point was simply that they held slightly more data than a floppy disk and would not get…
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IBM introduced the first commercial computer hard drive in 1956, known as the RAMAC 305, which weighed over a ton and required a forklift just to move it…
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Because why buy a second disk when you can just turn it over? Early home computer users routinely utilized a hole puncher to clip a notch into the side of…
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