This Country’s Government Abandons Outdated Technology: Farewell to CDs and Floppy Disks
Most people now rely on the cloud and storage drives to share or store data. However, back in the day you had floppy disks and CDs that served millions of decades, and in fact these technologies are still part of the ecosystem in some countries. Japan is known for its technological prowess and forerunners, but the country has also invested in old-age technology like floppy disks.
The Japanese government is finally realizing the need to move on from these products to modern services such as online support and cloud storage. Last month, the government’s economic division approved a new law that includes the end of the use of floppy disks.
It’s fascinating to see a country like Japan follow suit with these devices considering the kind of machines that support the discs. But in some ways you get the sense that a government agency is relying on floppy disks that are hard to exploit and the data remains secure as long as no one else has a copy of the same files.
Floppy disks have been around for more than a few decades. It all started in 1971 when IBM marketed these disks. However, times have changed and with the digital era, it can be assumed that the use of floppy disks prevents the digitization of the information stored on these disks and CDs. Except that the country’s government is adopting modern technologies to keep its data safe and doing it in the most robust way possible.
There’s a reason these devices were replaced by USB drives and SD cards over the past decade. In fact, floppy disks ceased to exist in 2011, which was stopped by the Japanese giant Sony.
