Goodbye Floppy Disks

From The Washington Post

This week PC World, one of the largest computer retailers in Europe, announced it will stop selling floppy disks once its existing stock is sold. Dell Computer Corp. stopped including floppy drives in its desktop computers four years ago.

Floppy's gone, an artifact of that time back in the day when we called the new, exciting, mysterious creation of the Internet the World Wide Web.

As Bryan Magrath, commercial director of PC World, told Britain's Daily Telegraph: "The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated with 20th-century computing as the sound of a computer dialing into the Internet."

And these days you can store your MP3s, video files, Web pages, anything on the Web, in a CD or a USB thumb drive. Goodbye, Floppy.