this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026

310 points (97.8% liked)

Technology

technology@lemmy.world

89,640 readers

15,233 active

1,710 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related news or articles.
Be excellent to each other!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago

moderators

L3s@lemmy.world

enu@lemmy.world

technopagan@lemmy.world

L4s@lemmy.world

L3s@hackingne.ws

US air traffic control enters the 21st century, starts to abandon floppy disks (www.theregister.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by vegeta@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

60 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 39 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

This is going to devastate the floppy disc industry.

hideshow 2 child comments

[–] 3laws@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 25 minutes ago)

Goodbye S&P500 floppy was its last true champion.

parent

[–] FridaVanMercury@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 hours ago

Yeah, didn't Japan recently make a move away from floppys too for sone goverment stuff? Big floppy is going to take a dive on the stock market.

parent