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...(Econ Reporter) — The worst possible way to be rejected for a job (Slate) — Inside the underground floppy disk music scene (The Verge) — Five random blogs via Read Something Great...
...When Kohler discovered that Mechner had assiduously kept records of the game’s development on floppy disks and journals, he saw a unique opportunity to narrate the scrappy, personal journey of game development...
...In 1989, along with an older alumnus, he released his first product: encryption software sold on a floppy disk....
...Floppy disks and fax machines are still very much in use in Japan. Old-fashioned business habits have damped demand for enterprise software and cloud computing....
...— The Right is big mad at Big Tech but can’t quite figure out why (Rolling Stone) — Google Groups has been left to die (Andrew Helwer) — Why the floppy disk just won’t die (Wired) — State pension funds...
...I knew what options were and I could code them into a computer, on a five-inch floppy disk. I landed at Drexel Burnham and was working with the money market group....
...Until 2019, America’s nuclear arsenal still operated off floppy disks....
...And so they were sending her what didn’t look very secure to me, they were sending sort of floppy disks of audio statements, which of course anybody who, you know, wanted could have listened to....
...I wish Sanderson well, but I don’t plan to go mining for floppy disks any time soon....
...disks?...
...Some of his experiences of hounding down the most notorious malicious hackers in the world — from Ferrari-driving Russian youngsters to the Karachi-based hackers who created the first ever floppy disk virus...
...“As chips shrank and software flew to the cloud, venture capital kept operating on the business equivalent of floppy disks,” Sequoia partner Roelof Botha wrote....
...The first known ransomware virus, PC Cyborg, was recorded in 1989, with victims infected via floppy disk and told to send a $189 cheque to an address in Panama....
...The cosmic pulsar diagram for Joy Division’s 1979 Unknown Pleasures (“a palimpsest — it means whatever the individual thinks it means”), the elaborate, expensive-to-produce “floppy disk” cut-outs on New...
...In some corners of Japan Inc, he said, resistance to digitisation was so strong that some companies were still using floppy disks, the computer memory storage devices first sold almost 50 years ago....
...It was groundbreaking in its portability and the fact that it could run the MS-DOS operating system off an internal ROM drive rather than booting from a floppy disk....
...“My kids don’t know what a floppy disk is but they still know what a sim card is,” he said....
...The demonstrators who trashed the headquarters 30 years ago were not after computer software or even floppy disks. They wanted to preserve handwritten or typed files....
...He was behind the purchase of Fidelity’s first computer in 1965, introduced its first call centre for prospective clients in 1974, computerised trading on floppy disk that enabled customers to buy and sell...
...disks, which were abandoned for exactly those reasons....
...I bet you more regularly save a Word document by hitting the “save” icon than using a floppy disk, or “cut” text more than you use the real-world equivalent of the signifying pair of scissors....
...Imagine a world where interminable waits for backward-looking, frequently-revised economic data seem as archaically quaint as floppy disks, beepers and a civil internet....
...Has Emmerson Mnangagwa discovered a floppy disk in an attic in Harare, full of file extensions of first-generation Thatcherite propaganda?...
...What you’ve been saying Mnangagwa’s chance to be a revolutionary again: letter from Thomas Meaney, Berlin, Germany Has Emmerson Mnangagwa discovered a floppy disk in an attic in Harare, full of file extensions...
...“Mr Zuckerberg, a magazine I recently opened came with a floppy disk offering me 30 free hours of something called America On-Line. Is that the same as Facebook?” mocked one tweeter....
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