Floppy Disks and the Problem of Data Loss

Floppy disks were once greeted as the messiahs of the domain of data storage when they came into the market.

The floppy, when it first made its appearance in the home market in the 1990s, was looked upon as the technological wonder of the day. It was, in fact, a highly evolved format for those times, and started the race for greater space and easier sharing options among portable digital storage formats.

Before floppies, it was not possible to move any data out of a computer physically without taking out the hard disk and carrying it around