Dead Media Beat: Floppy disks become notebooks

http://anabuigues.blogspot.com/2008/06/analogo-vs-digital-una-ancdota-analogue.html

Link: Yo estudié Historia del Arte y otros relatos: analógico vs digital - una anécdota
analogue vs digital - an anecdote.

"As some of you might know I make these items ¨floppy bookies¨ -

http://www.etsy.com/view_transaction.php?transaction_id=8780798

"something in between environmentally friendly and geekery products.

"I started using my own old floppy disks and as the product started to sell well in etsy.com and as I was running out of my old floppies I had to actually go and try to buy floppies.

"Yesterday, I go to Fnac, this European franchise ... and cannot find them in the storage products shelf. They only had:

"cds & dvds

"cassette tapes

"vhs tapes

-¨do you carry floppy disks?¨

-¨what is that?

-¨yes, before the cds came out, we used magnetic disks that came inside a plastic square case¨

-sorry, you´ll have to ask the people in the consumable department, I am from the informatics department, sorry I can´t help you.

"The clerk from the consumables section tells me they are so out of floppies ... and his face ... and I just said something like ¨well, I want it for an art and recycling project ...

Conclusion:

the floppies are out because the digital generations tend to update themselves and quickly

the audio and vhs tapes are still in stock because the analogue generation is still living in the analogue generation ...