#floppydisks — Public Fediverse posts
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TechSpot: A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk. “Korean website 2P Game Arcade recently launched a new ‘1.44MB Game Dev Contest.’ The challenge is simple: developers must create an entire game that fits on a single floppy disk. The maximum file size is 1,474,560 bytes, matching the capacity of the 3.5-inch high-density floppy disks commonly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/techspot-a-new-coding-contest-challenges-developers-to-fit-an-entire-game-onto-a-1-44mb-floppy-disk/ -
TechSpot: A new coding contest challenges developers to fit an entire game onto a 1.44MB floppy disk. “Korean website 2P Game Arcade recently launched a new ‘1.44MB Game Dev Contest.’ The challenge is simple: developers must create an entire game that fits on a single floppy disk. The maximum file size is 1,474,560 bytes, matching the capacity of the 3.5-inch high-density floppy disks commonly […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/23/techspot-a-new-coding-contest-challenges-developers-to-fit-an-entire-game-onto-a-1-44mb-floppy-disk/ -
🚀 Dive into the thrilling world of ancient floppy disks and dot-matrix #nostalgia, as thousands of #Amiga #games await you—because who wouldn't want to relive the cutting-edge graphics of 1987? 💾🎮 It's like a time machine, but instead of the future, you're stuck in the pixelated past! 🕹️🤣
https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/ #floppydisks #dotmatrix #retro #gaming #pixelart #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Dive into the thrilling world of ancient floppy disks and dot-matrix #nostalgia, as thousands of #Amiga #games await you—because who wouldn't want to relive the cutting-edge graphics of 1987? 💾🎮 It's like a time machine, but instead of the future, you're stuck in the pixelated past! 🕹️🤣
https://amigafreeware.downer.tech/ #floppydisks #dotmatrix #retro #gaming #pixelart #HackerNews #ngated -
Hackaday: It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy. “Copy That Floppy! only briefly touches on the most ideal situation — that is, buying a USB floppy drive and making copies of the bog standard 3.5 inch disks you might come across. It then moves right on into more advanced topics, such as interfacing with less common drive types, how to safely clean floppies, and the use of advanced […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/09/hackaday-its-now-imperative-that-you-copy-that-floppy/ -
Hackaday: It’s Now Imperative That You Copy That Floppy. “Copy That Floppy! only briefly touches on the most ideal situation — that is, buying a USB floppy drive and making copies of the bog standard 3.5 inch disks you might come across. It then moves right on into more advanced topics, such as interfacing with less common drive types, how to safely clean floppies, and the use of advanced […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/07/09/hackaday-its-now-imperative-that-you-copy-that-floppy/ -
Ah yes, the Future Nostalgia Project, where we preserve obsolete tech because who doesn't want to rescue floppy disks in 2025? 😂 Apparently, we need a Cambridge degree to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V that 1.44 MB treasure trove of... ancient Word Art and Sound Blaster drivers. 📼✨
https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/ #FutureNostalgia #ObsoleteTech #FloppyDisks #TechPreservation #WordArt #SoundBlaster #HackerNews #ngated -
Ah yes, the Future Nostalgia Project, where we preserve obsolete tech because who doesn't want to rescue floppy disks in 2025? 😂 Apparently, we need a Cambridge degree to Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V that 1.44 MB treasure trove of... ancient Word Art and Sound Blaster drivers. 📼✨
https://www.digipres.org/the-floppy-guide/ #FutureNostalgia #ObsoleteTech #FloppyDisks #TechPreservation #WordArt #SoundBlaster #HackerNews #ngated -
The "Sneakerweb" is here to whisk us back to the revolutionary 🕰️ days of floppy disks and dial-up modems. Forget DNS servers and embrace the cutting-edge technology of sneaker networks—because who needs the internet when you have USB drives and sneakers? 🚶♂️💾 Get ready to trip over cables as we march boldly into the past!
https://sneakerweb.org/ #Sneakerweb #FloppyDisks #RetroTech #SneakerNetworks #DialUpModems #HackerNews #ngated -
The "Sneakerweb" is here to whisk us back to the revolutionary 🕰️ days of floppy disks and dial-up modems. Forget DNS servers and embrace the cutting-edge technology of sneaker networks—because who needs the internet when you have USB drives and sneakers? 🚶♂️💾 Get ready to trip over cables as we march boldly into the past!
https://sneakerweb.org/ #Sneakerweb #FloppyDisks #RetroTech #SneakerNetworks #DialUpModems #HackerNews #ngated -
👴 Ah, 1997, when hacker #nostalgia was as fresh as TRASH 📰 and your biggest enemy was a virus that wasn't self-inflicted from too much Mountain Dew. #Zachtronics wants you to believe you're the Neo of floppy disk land, but really you're just paying to relive old-school hacking fantasies from your mom's basement. 💾💻
https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/ #hackernews #retrohacking #floppydisks #1990s #gaming #HackerNews #ngated -
👴 Ah, 1997, when hacker #nostalgia was as fresh as TRASH 📰 and your biggest enemy was a virus that wasn't self-inflicted from too much Mountain Dew. #Zachtronics wants you to believe you're the Neo of floppy disk land, but really you're just paying to relive old-school hacking fantasies from your mom's basement. 💾💻
https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/ #hackernews #retrohacking #floppydisks #1990s #gaming #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Ah, the good ol' days when you needed a PhD in floppy disks just to play Minesweeper! 😂 Witness the nostalgic ramblings of an aging techie who can't let go of his glory days as a 10-year-old IT prodigy. Spoiler: we get it, you opened autoexec.bat ONCE! 🦖 #BoomerTechWisdom
https://unix.foo/posts/last-people-who-know-how-it-works/ #BoomerTech #Nostalgia #GamingTech #ITProdigy #FloppyDisks #RetroGaming #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Ah, the good ol' days when you needed a PhD in floppy disks just to play Minesweeper! 😂 Witness the nostalgic ramblings of an aging techie who can't let go of his glory days as a 10-year-old IT prodigy. Spoiler: we get it, you opened autoexec.bat ONCE! 🦖 #BoomerTechWisdom
https://unix.foo/posts/last-people-who-know-how-it-works/ #BoomerTech #Nostalgia #GamingTech #ITProdigy #FloppyDisks #RetroGaming #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Behold, the pinnacle of retro coding nostalgia: an open-source Oberon IDE that screams "I'm stuck in 1985!" 😆 GitHub's latest museum exhibit promises to teleport you back to the days when your biggest worry was running out of floppy disks. 📼✨
https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon #retroCoding #openSource #OberonIDE #GitHub #nostalgia #floppyDisks #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Behold, the pinnacle of retro coding nostalgia: an open-source Oberon IDE that screams "I'm stuck in 1985!" 😆 GitHub's latest museum exhibit promises to teleport you back to the days when your biggest worry was running out of floppy disks. 📼✨
https://github.com/kekcleader/FreeOberon #retroCoding #openSource #OberonIDE #GitHub #nostalgia #floppyDisks #HackerNews #ngated -
On this day in 1972, the patent for the floppy disk was granted. So happy floppy disk day, again, kind of 🥳😎
#floppydisk #floppydisks #diskette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory
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On this day in 1972, the patent for the floppy disk was granted. So happy floppy disk day, again, kind of 🥳😎
#floppydisk #floppydisks #diskette #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory
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One has 40GB capacity, the other 0,00144GB capacity. Both attach to my iMac. Guess which is my favorite?
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One has 40GB capacity, the other 0,00144GB capacity. Both attach to my iMac. Guess which is my favorite?
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Do you want to see how a vintage Commodore 4040 disk drive gets refurbished? I got you covered:
https://youtu.be/CPUYzPUANHU
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Do you want to see how a vintage Commodore 4040 disk drive gets refurbished? I got you covered:
https://youtu.be/CPUYzPUANHU
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The Persistence of Floppy Disks: A $5 Relic in a Digital Age
Are floppy disks still useful in 2026? Learn why some people still pay $5 for these old storage tools and how they are used for special machines today.
#floppydisks, #oldtech, #techhistory, #digitalstorage, #retrocomputing
https://newsletter.tf/why-people-still-buy-floppy-disks-2026/
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Even in 2026, people are still buying floppy disks for $5. This is a surprise because most people use cloud storage now.
#floppydisks, #oldtech, #techhistory, #digitalstorage, #retrocomputing
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Agreed with @ryanrandall (h/t), that's a great sweater!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives
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Agreed with @ryanrandall (h/t), that's a great sweater!
https://spectrum.ieee.org/floppy-disk-data-preservation-archives
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Relive the #PC #magazine cover disk era with 758-strong #InternetArchive.org #CDROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes #FloppyDisks from as early as 1993
A search uncovered over 1,500 #PCGamer software archives, thanks to a trove of floppy disk offerings from yesteryear. The total collection spans 1.2TB of material, according to the site.
Many of the #magazines are available to read, too
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/relive-the-pc-magazine-cover-disk-era-with-758-strong-archive-org-cd-rom-collection-1-2tb-treasure-trove-also-includes-floppy-disks-from-as-early-as-1993Wow that takes me back!
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Relive the #PC #magazine cover disk era with 758-strong #InternetArchive.org #CDROM collection — 1.2TB treasure trove also includes #FloppyDisks from as early as 1993
A search uncovered over 1,500 #PCGamer software archives, thanks to a trove of floppy disk offerings from yesteryear. The total collection spans 1.2TB of material, according to the site.
Many of the #magazines are available to read, too
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/relive-the-pc-magazine-cover-disk-era-with-758-strong-archive-org-cd-rom-collection-1-2tb-treasure-trove-also-includes-floppy-disks-from-as-early-as-1993Wow that takes me back!
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Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌
#floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos
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Happy 5,25" floppy disk day to those who celebrate! 🥳 May your drivehead be reliable, your disks well stored and your supply of new old stock ones never run dry. Cheers! 🙌
#floppydisk #floppydisks #floppy #diskette #disketten #525FloppyDay #retrocomputing #rerrogaming #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #dos
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Oh, look! 🎉 Yet another breathless tech archeology piece! Because who doesn't want to hear about a DOS game nobody played from a place nobody goes? ❄️ It's like Indiana Jones, but with floppy disks and penguins. 🐧💾
https://alphapixeldev.com/lan-lok-the-antarctic-dos-sabotage-game-lost-for-34-years-part-1/ #techarcheology #DOSgames #floppydisks #indiegames #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh, look! 🎉 Yet another breathless tech archeology piece! Because who doesn't want to hear about a DOS game nobody played from a place nobody goes? ❄️ It's like Indiana Jones, but with floppy disks and penguins. 🐧💾
https://alphapixeldev.com/lan-lok-the-antarctic-dos-sabotage-game-lost-for-34-years-part-1/ #techarcheology #DOSgames #floppydisks #indiegames #nostalgia #HackerNews #ngated -
How Windows 95 Was Distributed on 28 Floppy Disks Before CD-ROMs Became Standard
📰 Original title: The 28 Installation Disks of Windows 95
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/how-windows-95-was-distributed-on-28-floppy-disks-before-cd-roms-became-standard.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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How Windows 95 Was Distributed on 28 Floppy Disks Before CD-ROMs Became Standard
📰 Original title: The 28 Installation Disks of Windows 95
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/how-windows-95-was-distributed-on-28-floppy-disks-before-cd-roms-became-standard.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world
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How Windows 95 Was Distributed on 28 Floppy Disks Before CD-ROMs Became Standard
📰 Original title: The 28 Installation Disks of Windows 95
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://en.killbait.com/how-windows-95-was-distributed-on-28-floppy-disks-before-cd-roms-became-standard.html?utm_source=mastodon_social&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_social
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Good grief, totally forgot to publish my latest video on MakerTube:
https://makertube.net/w/anHLNsRGc5nirtEXkLu3Kd
Get your Commodore Floppy Fix TODAY! Deep clean of a CBM 4040!
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Good grief, totally forgot to publish my latest video on MakerTube:
https://makertube.net/w/anHLNsRGc5nirtEXkLu3Kd
Get your Commodore Floppy Fix TODAY! Deep clean of a CBM 4040!
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Oh WOW, enlighten us more about that show you *never* watched 📺😂. Who knew a phrase could be both "dramatic" and "weirdly precise"? 🎭🔍 Next you'll be telling us about the secret life of floppy disks without ever touching one! 💾🤦♂️
https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire #HackerNews #Humor #Drama #FloppyDisks #Precision #HackerNews #ngated -
Oh WOW, enlighten us more about that show you *never* watched 📺😂. Who knew a phrase could be both "dramatic" and "weirdly precise"? 🎭🔍 Next you'll be telling us about the secret life of floppy disks without ever touching one! 💾🤦♂️
https://unstack.io/halt-and-catch-fire #HackerNews #Humor #Drama #FloppyDisks #Precision #HackerNews #ngated -
New video: Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb
Another Commodore 4040 dual floppy disk drive ended up in my hands, but only temporarily for repairs and refurbishing. This drive didn't boot up in the beginning and had other small issues. I will show in great detail how to take these things apart and how to clean them and get them up to speed again.
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New video: Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb
Another Commodore 4040 dual floppy disk drive ended up in my hands, but only temporarily for repairs and refurbishing. This drive didn't boot up in the beginning and had other small issues. I will show in great detail how to take these things apart and how to clean them and get them up to speed again.
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New video for Patrons: Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb
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New video for Patrons: Commodore 4040 Disk Drive Refurb
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Verbatim - The Whole Message is Quality!
Those are some serious diskettes! 8" and 5,25"!
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Verbatim - The Whole Message is Quality!
Those are some serious diskettes! 8" and 5,25"!
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🚀 Wow, someone should tell this guy that #DOS isn't exactly the pinnacle of secure operating systems. 🖥️ But hey, if you want to build a "secure" #AI by channeling your inner '90s computer geek, who am I to stop you? Just don't forget your floppy disks! 💾
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ #Security #FloppyDisks #90sNostalgia #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Wow, someone should tell this guy that #DOS isn't exactly the pinnacle of secure operating systems. 🖥️ But hey, if you want to build a "secure" #AI by channeling your inner '90s computer geek, who am I to stop you? Just don't forget your floppy disks! 💾
https://www.flyingpenguin.com/build-an-openclaw-free-secure-always-on-local-ai-agent/ #Security #FloppyDisks #90sNostalgia #HackerNews #HackerNews #ngated -
Why a Locked Floppy Disk Could Be Safer Than a Modern Network
Photo by CCDBarcodeScanner, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.Dear Cherubs, in the 1990s, office security had the elegance of a locked drawer and the threat model of a very determined coat thief. Floppy disks were the workhorses of the era, and Britannica notes they were popular from the 1970s until the late 1990s, made of flexible plastic coated with magnetic material. Before the internet became an everyday business utility, many workplaces were still mostly offline; Pew Research found that in 1995 only 14% of U.S. adults had internet access, and 42% had never heard of it.
THE LOCKED-BOX LOGIC
If your payroll files, drafts, and backups lived on removable media, the cleanest security move was physical control. Put the disks in a cabinet, lock the cabinet, and hope nobody on the third floor had a master key and a curious streak. It was a blunt system, but it worked because access was local, slow, and obvious. If someone needed a copy, they usually had to walk over, ask, sign something, and maybe endure a suspicious look from whoever guarded the supply room.
That is the part people forget when they romanticize the old days. The security was not magical; the attack surface was just tiny. To steal the data, someone usually had to be in the building, or at least within arm’s reach of the media. Annoyingly low-tech, yes. Also annoyingly effective.
MODERN SECURITY, NEW PROBLEMS
Once files moved onto networks and cloud systems, the game changed. NIST defines intrusion detection as monitoring events in a system or network for signs of possible incidents, and says intrusion prevention systems can also try to stop them. CISA says firewalls shield computers and networks from malicious or unnecessary traffic, while NIST says cryptography is used to protect sensitive digitized information during transmission and while in storage. In other words: the modern office traded one locked box for a whole stack of digital locks, alarms, and panic buttons.
Of course, the modern setup has its own virtues. Data can be backed up automatically, shared instantly, and protected with layered controls that the floppy-disk era never needed. NIST’s storage-encryption guidance still says organizations should physically secure devices and removable media, which is a polite way of saying: the box still matters, even when the box now lives in a server rack. Security did not become less important; it became more complicated, which is basically the same thing with extra meetings.
So yes, a locked plastic box full of floppies could be safer than a badly configured internet-facing system. But that is not because the past was wiser. It is because the past had fewer doors, fewer windows, and fewer strangers trying every handle on the planet at once. Security has always been a trade-off between convenience and control; we just used to do the math with keys instead of passwords.
Sources:
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #cybersecurity #dataSecurity #encryption #firewalls #floppyDisks #internet #internetHistory #intrusionDetection #officeHistory #openSource #physicalSecurity #techNostalgia #technology #ubuntu #wordpress
Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/technology/floppy-disk
Pew Research Center — https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/02/27/part-1-how-the-internet-has-woven-itself-into-american-life/
NIST SP 800-94 — https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/94/final
CISA firewalls — https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/understanding-firewalls-home-and-small-office-use
NIST SP 800-175B Rev. 1 — https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/175/b/r1/final
NIST SP 800-111 — https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-111.pdf
Wikimedia Commons image page — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floppy_Disk_HD.jpg -
Why a Locked Floppy Disk Could Be Safer Than a Modern Network
Photo by CCDBarcodeScanner, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons.Dear Cherubs, in the 1990s, office security had the elegance of a locked drawer and the threat model of a very determined coat thief. Floppy disks were the workhorses of the era, and Britannica notes they were popular from the 1970s until the late 1990s, made of flexible plastic coated with magnetic material. Before the internet became an everyday business utility, many workplaces were still mostly offline; Pew Research found that in 1995 only 14% of U.S. adults had internet access, and 42% had never heard of it.
THE LOCKED-BOX LOGIC
If your payroll files, drafts, and backups lived on removable media, the cleanest security move was physical control. Put the disks in a cabinet, lock the cabinet, and hope nobody on the third floor had a master key and a curious streak. It was a blunt system, but it worked because access was local, slow, and obvious. If someone needed a copy, they usually had to walk over, ask, sign something, and maybe endure a suspicious look from whoever guarded the supply room.
That is the part people forget when they romanticize the old days. The security was not magical; the attack surface was just tiny. To steal the data, someone usually had to be in the building, or at least within arm’s reach of the media. Annoyingly low-tech, yes. Also annoyingly effective.
MODERN SECURITY, NEW PROBLEMS
Once files moved onto networks and cloud systems, the game changed. NIST defines intrusion detection as monitoring events in a system or network for signs of possible incidents, and says intrusion prevention systems can also try to stop them. CISA says firewalls shield computers and networks from malicious or unnecessary traffic, while NIST says cryptography is used to protect sensitive digitized information during transmission and while in storage. In other words: the modern office traded one locked box for a whole stack of digital locks, alarms, and panic buttons.
Of course, the modern setup has its own virtues. Data can be backed up automatically, shared instantly, and protected with layered controls that the floppy-disk era never needed. NIST’s storage-encryption guidance still says organizations should physically secure devices and removable media, which is a polite way of saying: the box still matters, even when the box now lives in a server rack. Security did not become less important; it became more complicated, which is basically the same thing with extra meetings.
So yes, a locked plastic box full of floppies could be safer than a badly configured internet-facing system. But that is not because the past was wiser. It is because the past had fewer doors, fewer windows, and fewer strangers trying every handle on the planet at once. Security has always been a trade-off between convenience and control; we just used to do the math with keys instead of passwords.
Sources:
The Thisclaimer logo blends a classic warning symbol with a brain icon to represent critical thinking, curiosity, and thoughtful disclaimers. #cybersecurity #dataSecurity #encryption #firewalls #floppyDisks #internet #internetHistory #intrusionDetection #officeHistory #openSource #physicalSecurity #techNostalgia #technology #ubuntu #wordpress
Britannica — https://www.britannica.com/technology/floppy-disk
Pew Research Center — https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2014/02/27/part-1-how-the-internet-has-woven-itself-into-american-life/
NIST SP 800-94 — https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/94/final
CISA firewalls — https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/understanding-firewalls-home-and-small-office-use
NIST SP 800-175B Rev. 1 — https://csrc.nist.gov/pubs/sp/800/175/b/r1/final
NIST SP 800-111 — https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-111.pdf
Wikimedia Commons image page — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Floppy_Disk_HD.jpg -
Your daily reminder to keep #floppydisks out of toasters. #digipres #beaglebros
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Your daily reminder to keep #floppydisks out of toasters. #digipres #beaglebros
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New video for Patrons:
1541 Floppy Disk Differences
