The floppy disk is dead. If anything, it outlived its usefulness. We haven’t carried a laptop with a floppy since 1997 or 1998 (a Dell, if memory serves; a superslim no-internal-removable-drives IBM followed before we jumped to our first Powerbook in 2000 or so). In other words, 9 or 10 years, and NOW it’s a story?

What we really like about the linked story is the error message they’ve pictured. If you recognize it, you’re really geeky.