For all the old school nessaholic fans

[zurielshimon]

Ohh Tylor, you're not THAT old! :wink:

haha, I'm making fun of steveau....but I am old enough to remember floppy disks being floppy in physical characteristic.  I think that is why they called them floppy.  :?   So yes, I'm that old.     I never walked for seven miles in eight feet of snow though....not that I remember...I did ride my bike in 3 feet of snow for 10 miles though...does that count?  :razz:

They called them floppy because the actual media was soft material, not because the disk casing was floppy.

Before floppy disks you only had hard disks... which were solid metal disks, which is what we still use for hard disk drives or just hard drives.

Of course, this gets confusing now that we have hard drives that are RAM and don't even use spinning metal disks anymore.

I just call them diskettes, the 3½" kind anyway.  I'm sure there was a time when 5¼" was considered small, but I just can't make myself call them anything ending in "-ette".

[LimeTwister]

Ohh Tylor, you're not THAT old! :wink:

haha, I'm making fun of steveau....but I am old enough to remember floppy disks being floppy in physical characteristic.  I think that is why they called them floppy.  :?   So yes, I'm that old.     I never walked for seven miles in eight feet of snow though....not that I remember...I did ride my bike in 3 feet of snow for 10 miles though...does that count?  :razz:

They called them floppy because the actual media was soft material, not because the disk casing was floppy.

Before floppy disks you only had hard disks... which were solid metal disks, which is what we still use for hard disk drives or just hard drives.

Of course, this gets confusing now that we have hard drives that are RAM and don't even use spinning metal disks anymore.

There were, at one time, actual floppy disks...that were floppy. They were like 5.25 inch.

[B]

It's just so insane to me that I was 16 when I started talking to all you guys, and here I am 21... so much has changed, but yet here I am, still talking to you all.  It's one of the only things that's still around in my life now that was when I was 16.  Haha.  Just crazy.  All because of V.

Word. When I think about how young we all were it blows me away, haha.

remember

NESSAJedi  

hahahha

Word. We used to post whore and bump away at threads to gain ranks.  :razz:

[tylor2000]

Ohh Tylor, you're not THAT old! :wink:

haha, I'm making fun of steveau....but I am old enough to remember floppy disks being floppy in physical characteristic.  I think that is why they called them floppy.  :?   So yes, I'm that old.     I never walked for seven miles in eight feet of snow though....not that I remember...I did ride my bike in 3 feet of snow for 10 miles though...does that count?  :razz:

They called them floppy because the actual media was soft material, not because the disk casing was floppy.

Before floppy disks you only had hard disks... which were solid metal disks, which is what we still use for hard disk drives or just hard drives.

Of course, this gets confusing now that we have hard drives that are RAM and don't even use spinning metal disks anymore.

Yes, you are right.  I think though they made the outer case 'floppy' on purpose.  I remember being 8 years old and having several 8" floppy disks.  I could tell you several explanations of why they were made the way they were, but I think it would be the stuff urban legends are made of.

[Laura]

lol i remember the post wh0ring threads, those were fun!

& damn, cant believe this thread is still going..didn't expect to get over 150 replies  8O

[B]

lol i remember the post wh0ring threads, those were fun!

& damn, cant believe this thread is still going..didn't expect to get over 150 replies  8O

Don't call out the OG triple OG's and expect them to not come out of the woodwork.

That's how we roll.  

[moviemaker248]

lol i remember the post wh0ring threads, those were fun!

& damn, cant believe this thread is still going..didn't expect to get over 150 replies  8O

Don't call out the OG triple OG's and expect them to not come out of the woodwork.

That's how we roll.  

Fo' Sho'......izzle.

[Grakthis]

Ohh Tylor, you're not THAT old! :wink:

haha, I'm making fun of steveau....but I am old enough to remember floppy disks being floppy in physical characteristic.  I think that is why they called them floppy.  :?   So yes, I'm that old.     I never walked for seven miles in eight feet of snow though....not that I remember...I did ride my bike in 3 feet of snow for 10 miles though...does that count?  :razz:

They called them floppy because the actual media was soft material, not because the disk casing was floppy.

Before floppy disks you only had hard disks... which were solid metal disks, which is what we still use for hard disk drives or just hard drives.

Of course, this gets confusing now that we have hard drives that are RAM and don't even use spinning metal disks anymore.

There were, at one time, actual floppy disks...that were floppy. They were like 5.25 inch.

Yes, Joey.  I am aware of that.  But I am explaining that the reason they were called floppy isn't because the case was floppy.  It was because the media was floppy.

Which is why the 3 1/4 were still called floppy.

[NoelleNC]

I thought it was because floppy is a cute word and cute words stick

[tylor2000]

Ohh Tylor, you're not THAT old! :wink:

haha, I'm making fun of steveau....but I am old enough to remember floppy disks being floppy in physical characteristic.  I think that is why they called them floppy.  :?   So yes, I'm that old.     I never walked for seven miles in eight feet of snow though....not that I remember...I did ride my bike in 3 feet of snow for 10 miles though...does that count?  :razz:

They called them floppy because the actual media was soft material, not because the disk casing was floppy.

Before floppy disks you only had hard disks... which were solid metal disks, which is what we still use for hard disk drives or just hard drives.

Of course, this gets confusing now that we have hard drives that are RAM and don't even use spinning metal disks anymore.

There were, at one time, actual floppy disks...that were floppy. They were like 5.25 inch.

Yes, Joey.  I am aware of that.  But I am explaining that the reason they were called floppy isn't because the case was floppy.  It was because the media was floppy.

Which is why the 3 1/4 were still called floppy.

I remember breaking open 5.25 floppies and they were made with a superior form of magnetic tape but instead of being wound up in a spool like in a cassette tape, where you had to fast forward and rewind to get to where you wanted, it was in the disk format so you could access data on any part of the tape you wanted very easily with just a short spin.  I actually had used cassette tapes on my Commodore Vic 20 for that and it was a pain in the arse.  It slowed things down alot.  You had to sit there and wait for your computer to spin the cassette tape for so many minutes to find the info needed.

[tricia]

NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gina]

It's just so insane to me that I was 16 when I started talking to all you guys, and here I am 21... so much has changed, but yet here I am, still talking to you all.  It's one of the only things that's still around in my life now that was when I was 16.  Haha.  Just crazy.  All because of V.

Word. When I think about how young we all were it blows me away, haha.

I was so lame back then... well maybe I still am, but thankfully I've grown up a bit, haha.  I look back at things that I used to post and am embarrassed :razz:  It's just crazy to look at everyone now, people getting married, graduating from college, the young ones starting college now...  Alright, no more being sentimental haha.

[LostDwarf]

haha i remember when Gina was like a sophmore in hs =P

[Gina]

And now I'm a senior in college.

[tylor2000]

NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And you live in texas, darlin.  Bwahahaha