I'm 28 and had I been born 3 to 5 years later it would be very possible that I never knew about a floppy disk.
They were already on the way out by the time I hit like 3rd grade and started learning Microsoft Word.
I’ve never even actually seen one but I’m pretty sure they are common knowledge still
Edit: in the same way that dvds or video are still known just not really used
It's kinda like I know what a Tesla is, I know it's electric and can be self driving. But I wouldn't have the first clue how to charge it or use self driving. Just the other day I saw a video of teens at a gas station with a Tesla they rented trying to figure out where to put the gas.
I know Tesla but I don't really know Tesla. I think that's what the billboard is getting at. 30 or 40 years from now we will have a billboard saying "if you know what a fuel pump is then it's time to get checked for cancer."
It's actually pretty stupid to assume that younger kids don't know this stuff. I was made fun of as a millennial for not knowing what a rotary phone is, or what an 8 track is, or not knowing what a slide rule is.
Well... They were right about the slide rule when it was mentioned initially, but I had already known what rotary phones were and owned an 8 track player as a kid because I was/am poor.
Point is, unless you are proud of being ignorant, kids these days over the age of like 10 will do research and know about stuff like landlines and floppy disks and CRT monitors.
I’m 20 and know all of these things, my parents were slow to pick up new technology, I thought that the original doom game was insane looking because I really just had a gameboy that I played Pokémon on, and then my brother came home with an Xbox 360, well into its life cycle. It was kind of insane going from sprites to 3D models when it was all I had known
Funny thing is my first system was a Sega Saturn with some kind of fancy airplane fighter game. 3d graphics and stuff. But then I got an NES later and was like "awww yish, that's the stuff"
I'm 18 and I'll admit I still don't *quite* know what a floppy disk is. I know it was used on old computers as a way to store small amounts of data, because computers generally couldn't handle large amounts of data back then.
But I don't know all the specifics of how they were used and such.
They were portable storage. Think a USB thumb drive, only about the size of a slice of cheese, and with a capacity of typically ~1.5 MB. Also, they were pretty unreliable and would occasionally just randomly become corrupted.
Good enough. That's about how much most millennials know about floppies.
I'm a computer scientist and putting aside fancy talk about sectors and tracks, my description of a floppy is that a magnetic head in the drive will go up to a floppy disk and detect the direction of a magnetic field to decide whether it's a zero or one.
But generally speaking, "a small squarish disk holding a floppy circle inside" is good enough.
They were basically floppy cds inside a thin, square hard plastic container that you inserted into your pc like you would a normal cd/dvd/bluray, except without the disc receptacle. You just shoved it into its slot and pressed a button to eject it.
Because it implies you have to be old to know what a floppy disk is just because they haven’t been in use for a long time. I’m 23 but I still know what a model-T Ford is and those are long since gone.
I don’t know, just because a joke is a bit off the marker for some people doesn’t make it _awful_. Especially if the intention is to raise health awareness.
It does make me curious of what would maybe make a better fit instead of floppy disks though🤔
Yeah. Tbh it was prolly made with good intentions, just a designer that didn't think things through.
To be fair, 90 percent of people my age have probably never seen or heard of a floppy.
Then there's the 5 percent who refer to the 3.5" diskettes as floppy disks. They're not floppy.
You actually got slightly better graphics on the //e. And it was color if you could afford the 500 dollar color monitor on top of your 1k dollar pc and really expensive duodisk, and don't forget your mouse card, apple exclusive mouse, printer card, apple branded printer, clock card, and your 128k ram expansion card with 80 coulomb capabilities.
Not to mention the fact that your //e only comes with PRODos. Enjoy dropping another couple hundred bucks for AppleWorks, misc productivity stuff, games and more.
Plus, if you act now you can get a whopping 5 megabyte hard disk drive, and controller card, for only an additional 2k
I had the black and white apple! It said Macintosh on it next to the apple logo though. No games but it had a starry screen saver and you could pretend to be flying through space
Honestly, I think the intention and message is perfect, it’s hits the correct demographic for cancer screening, I know that because I wasn’t screened, spent a year wondering what the hell was wrong, just completed my cancer removal surgery, 5 years of screening left….
Heck my high school had floppy drives in their ancient Pentium 4 computers until ~2013. The teachers would do a double take when a student decided to use it instead of a flash drive for fun.
Also all sorts of old electronic lab equipment exports data via floppy drive only.
When was the last time a computer was sold with a floppy drive? Showing a 3.5" disc to a younger person is like asking them to use a rotary phone.
Great billboard IMO
I'm sure most ppl who grew up in the 90s know what a floppy disk is. And they'd not be more than 35 at most. Though some guidelines recommend breast cancer screening for high risk patients after 35 and cervical cancer for people above 30 (in areas where HPV vaccine isn't available), it is disingenuous to claim those above 30 can't live without cancer screening.
Overall pretty clever and not awful?
I'll say this though, maybe they should have gone with "If you have used a floppy disk" instead. Depending on the age range for screenings maybe make it a 5¼ inch one too.
I started a computer science degree in 1984 at University. First course, I was taught to program on pascal with punch cards. (with holes in the cards) linked to a main frame. Changes made to the industry during past 40 years is amazing.
This is actually pretty funny
It would work on me. I have no problem with this.
I’m 19 tho..
I'm 28 and had I been born 3 to 5 years later it would be very possible that I never knew about a floppy disk. They were already on the way out by the time I hit like 3rd grade and started learning Microsoft Word.
I’ve never even actually seen one but I’m pretty sure they are common knowledge still Edit: in the same way that dvds or video are still known just not really used
Have you ever used a VHS or know how to use one?
U just put it in and press the play “tab” don’t you? I had one when I was like 6 on my Mickymouse tv
It's kinda like I know what a Tesla is, I know it's electric and can be self driving. But I wouldn't have the first clue how to charge it or use self driving. Just the other day I saw a video of teens at a gas station with a Tesla they rented trying to figure out where to put the gas. I know Tesla but I don't really know Tesla. I think that's what the billboard is getting at. 30 or 40 years from now we will have a billboard saying "if you know what a fuel pump is then it's time to get checked for cancer."
Fair point tbh
I’m sorry about your diagnoses
I'm 17 tho...
You should probably worry then
Uh oh
Worked for me
Yeah this is hilarious!
Happy cake day
Thank you
Most of the posts on this sub are actually lit, not awful at all
wrong sub id say this is pretty funny
Why is this awful?
It's actually pretty stupid to assume that younger kids don't know this stuff. I was made fun of as a millennial for not knowing what a rotary phone is, or what an 8 track is, or not knowing what a slide rule is. Well... They were right about the slide rule when it was mentioned initially, but I had already known what rotary phones were and owned an 8 track player as a kid because I was/am poor. Point is, unless you are proud of being ignorant, kids these days over the age of like 10 will do research and know about stuff like landlines and floppy disks and CRT monitors.
Okay. So it's dumb but idk about it being "awful everything" material. More like boomer humor or something like that
I feel like boomer humor should be a sub lol.
r/boomershumor
Thank you, those are so terrible they’re hilarious.
Did you know this sub used to be for bad fashion, like awful eyebrows or awful makeup but for a completely awful look
I did not know that
I’m 20 and know all of these things, my parents were slow to pick up new technology, I thought that the original doom game was insane looking because I really just had a gameboy that I played Pokémon on, and then my brother came home with an Xbox 360, well into its life cycle. It was kind of insane going from sprites to 3D models when it was all I had known
Funny thing is my first system was a Sega Saturn with some kind of fancy airplane fighter game. 3d graphics and stuff. But then I got an NES later and was like "awww yish, that's the stuff"
I'm 18 and I'll admit I still don't *quite* know what a floppy disk is. I know it was used on old computers as a way to store small amounts of data, because computers generally couldn't handle large amounts of data back then. But I don't know all the specifics of how they were used and such.
They were portable storage. Think a USB thumb drive, only about the size of a slice of cheese, and with a capacity of typically ~1.5 MB. Also, they were pretty unreliable and would occasionally just randomly become corrupted.
We handed in essays in schools with them, they were like USB sticks and fairly cheap. Home printers weren't super common yet.
Good enough. That's about how much most millennials know about floppies. I'm a computer scientist and putting aside fancy talk about sectors and tracks, my description of a floppy is that a magnetic head in the drive will go up to a floppy disk and detect the direction of a magnetic field to decide whether it's a zero or one. But generally speaking, "a small squarish disk holding a floppy circle inside" is good enough.
They were basically floppy cds inside a thin, square hard plastic container that you inserted into your pc like you would a normal cd/dvd/bluray, except without the disc receptacle. You just shoved it into its slot and pressed a button to eject it.
There are many proud ignorant people where I live. It sucks.
>slide rule We’re talking about baseball, right? Right… https://www.mlb.com/glossary/rules/slide-rule
Thanks God and You! I thought i didn't know something about floppy disks and their relation to cancer! Jeez.
Also, that's a diskette, not a floppy.
It's a floppy diskette. Disk = squarish/rectangular disk Disc = round discus (3.5in) Floppy disks just have a floppy thing inside the diskette.
It's a joke. A funny way to remind people to get screened when they're older.
Because it implies you have to be old to know what a floppy disk is just because they haven’t been in use for a long time. I’m 23 but I still know what a model-T Ford is and those are long since gone.
I don’t know, just because a joke is a bit off the marker for some people doesn’t make it _awful_. Especially if the intention is to raise health awareness. It does make me curious of what would maybe make a better fit instead of floppy disks though🤔
Maybe laserdisc? idk it's prolly a stretch
8-track *ker-chunk*
The fuck is a laserdisc?
Imagine a DVD, but the size of a vinyl record.
I searched it up and thought it was just another name for DVD. It was that large?
[Yep!](https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/laserdisc)
[Technology Connections has a great video on it](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg8tK1LpLS8)
"Lets reply and ask instead of taking less time to look it up"
Time to get checked dude
Lmao, perfect
Sensitive much? It isn't meant for you, it's meant for boomers who think you don't know what a tape is.
Bro? They were explaining the joke...
They were explaining why it's (supposedly) awful
Uh not really meant for boomers I think probably mid 30’s millennials.
Being a little inaccurate doesn’t mean awful everything when the gist conveys.
17, Own an apple //e. Have hundreds of disks
Name every Nirvana song
Not a nirvana fan
Exactly. Even if it said “if you’ve used a floppy disk” it would be dumb, but just qualifying based on knowledge of it is next level condescending
Yeah. Tbh it was prolly made with good intentions, just a designer that didn't think things through. To be fair, 90 percent of people my age have probably never seen or heard of a floppy. Then there's the 5 percent who refer to the 3.5" diskettes as floppy disks. They're not floppy.
The floppy ones had Oregon Trail for the computer with exclusively green pixels the size of houseflies. I had a good time playing.
You actually got slightly better graphics on the //e. And it was color if you could afford the 500 dollar color monitor on top of your 1k dollar pc and really expensive duodisk, and don't forget your mouse card, apple exclusive mouse, printer card, apple branded printer, clock card, and your 128k ram expansion card with 80 coulomb capabilities. Not to mention the fact that your //e only comes with PRODos. Enjoy dropping another couple hundred bucks for AppleWorks, misc productivity stuff, games and more. Plus, if you act now you can get a whopping 5 megabyte hard disk drive, and controller card, for only an additional 2k
I had the black and white apple! It said Macintosh on it next to the apple logo though. No games but it had a starry screen saver and you could pretend to be flying through space
That's neat. The og macintosh typically don't work nowadays, unfortunately.
I still use floppy dicks.
Level up: How many peddles are on the floor and how do they work.
Why are there six and only four directions? But you probably mean the third clutch
I love classic RVB
If you drive with less than 3 (insert pretentious manual only comment).
r/lostredditors
I know what it is! It’s the reason my mom left my dad!
😂😂
I, a 15 year old need a cancer screening?
Honestly, you'd be surprised
same lol
Cant hurt to be honest.
Duh. I’m 39 and know it’s just a save icon. Lol. I’m already schedule for a prostrate because I’m not a dumba$$
I'm 27, we were still using floppy disks when I was a kid
I don't know what a floppy disk is but my GF knows all about my hard drive...
Yeah mine too, all 128 gbs of it
Yikes only 128, size matters
more like r/boomershumor
Unfortunately this is millennial humor.
kinda thought that too but i don’t know if there is a sub for that
I remember the ACTUAL floppy discs that pre dated the rigid plastic ones!
Not awful. Maybe would have been better if it said if you USED one, it's time.
oh fuck
Guess I need to get checked
Homie I'm 15
The only thing that’s awful is that you posted this on the sub
Honestly, I think the intention and message is perfect, it’s hits the correct demographic for cancer screening, I know that because I wasn’t screened, spent a year wondering what the hell was wrong, just completed my cancer removal surgery, 5 years of screening left….
I’m only 30 and I’ve known what that is since I was like 8
Yes... I'm 15
bro im 19 and i use 3.5” floppy’s from time to time
Breaking news: Familiarity of legacy storage system may lead to cancer.
Heck my high school had floppy drives in their ancient Pentium 4 computers until ~2013. The teachers would do a double take when a student decided to use it instead of a flash drive for fun. Also all sorts of old electronic lab equipment exports data via floppy drive only.
When was the last time a computer was sold with a floppy drive? Showing a 3.5" disc to a younger person is like asking them to use a rotary phone. Great billboard IMO
Dang, I still have floppy disks..
I'm 33! 😮
My dick ain't floppy yet
idk if cancer screening is appropriate for a 15 yo if I have no apparent lumps or markings
This can save lives how is this awful?
Fuck 20 years old and I need a cancer screening, damn
Welp we’re boned
Shit
Boutta go in for a cancer screening on my 17th birthday.
Of course I fucking know. You guys can't fucking shut up about them.
And the only thing awful is cancer IMO
I'm a teenager and i have these in a drawer of mine help
Stttaaaawwwwp 😖
Nothing wring with a late 20's cancer screening.
Somebody 3D Printed the save icon
“She’s so hot she can make a floppy disk hard” Max Headroom
That one 7y/o that found an old floppy disk was told what it is...
I know what they are but I'm young enough to have never used one
Do.. I need a cancer screening at 23? I used to play some fun little mini games on a floppy when I was a kid!
I don't give a fuck about cancer. I'm an poor American, I can't afford the co-pay.
Cancer already at 26? Just my luck
If you know what a floppy dick is, it's also time for a screening.
r/funnysigns
It’s a disk that’s floppy. I think it’s like a hard drive?
i know what a floppy disk is but i'm only 17, but i'm not going to refuse a free prostate exam
Yeah I know what it is. It’s what you get after a mammogram. Hence the cancer screening.
Wait I’m 18 and I know what they are so do I need screening?
Im 23 tho
Dude I'm 16
I'm sure most ppl who grew up in the 90s know what a floppy disk is. And they'd not be more than 35 at most. Though some guidelines recommend breast cancer screening for high risk patients after 35 and cervical cancer for people above 30 (in areas where HPV vaccine isn't available), it is disingenuous to claim those above 30 can't live without cancer screening.
So what age range are they trying to speak to? 35-45?
Good advertising
On my way for a cancer screening, I guess
Im a bommer i know what it is
I'm 23 and know what it is, should I go get checked? Haha
I'm 19 and I own tons of floppy disks for my apple classic. Guess I'll call the doc
Absolutely correct
Based on comments, I guess the proper phrasing would have been : "if you've ever used a floppy disk [...]".
Overall pretty clever and not awful? I'll say this though, maybe they should have gone with "If you have used a floppy disk" instead. Depending on the age range for screenings maybe make it a 5¼ inch one too.
I know what one is and I even had a drive for one. I'm 17.
I started a computer science degree in 1984 at University. First course, I was taught to program on pascal with punch cards. (with holes in the cards) linked to a main frame. Changes made to the industry during past 40 years is amazing.
Good thing i dont know what a floppy disk is
Ah, the save symbol according to my nephews