Japan declared a war on floppy disks

What are floppy disks?

• Popularly used between the 1970s and 1990s, a floppy disk is a removable disk storage device used to save computer data and programmes. 
• The disk, first developed by IBM, is only able to store about 800 KB of data, which is about 0.0008 GB. 
• Today we can find hard drives with storage up to 20 TB (20,000 GB). The first floppy disks measured about 8 inches and were difficult to store as they got dirty very easily. 
• To address the issue, a team from IBM developed smaller, less unwieldy floppy disks., which were about 3.5-5.5 inches. 
• When it was introduced in the 1970s, the floppy disk was considered a massive technological breakthrough. 
• With the personal computer becoming incredibly accessible, people were now able to share information easily. Documents could be saved on a floppy disk and accessed on another computer. 
• But with the introduction of CDs, pen drives and eventually the cloud, floppy disks grew redundant in most parts of the world. By 2011, all floppy disk manufacturing ceased.