PC World Gives Floppy The Boot
You know a technology is on its last breath when large retail chains stop supporting it. It was the case when major retailers stopped selling VHS tapes, and now it seems the floppy disk is going the same way. PC World as announced it will no longer support the format once it stock runs out, and you can expect many other retail chains to eventually follow suit. It was a good storage device, but its time has come.
"In 1998, an estimated 2 billion floppy disks were sold, according to the Recording Media Industries Association of Japan.
Since then global demand has fallen by around two-thirds to an estimated 700 million by 2006."
