For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston’s 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.
About a year or 2 ago. Remember when you stick a brand new floppy into the drive and tries to boot and it says something like, “Non-system disk. Please remove and press any key”? We’ll that’s actually a program coded on the floppy (which was preformatted by the manufacturer) and each manufactuer coded it a little different. I was ripping the image off different brands to compare their code.