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Japan finally quits the floppy.
“We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!” said Japan’s Digital Minister Taro Kono to Reuters for its report:
Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernize the bureaucracy.
Back in 2019, the US finally stopped using 8-inch floppy disks to coordinate the country’s nuclear forces.
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