Culture Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/japan-declares-victory-effort-end-government-use-floppy-disks-2024-07-03/

Taro Kono speaks during a debate session held by Japan National Press Club September 18, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan.

TOKYO, July 3 (Reuters) - Japan's government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.

By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle recycling.

"We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" Digital Minister Taro Kono, who has been vocal about wiping out fax machines and other analogue technology in government, told Reuters in a statement on Wednesday.

The Digital Agency was set up during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, when a scramble to roll out nationwide testing and vaccination revealed that the government still relied on paper filing and outdated technology.

A charismatic figure with 2.5 million followers on X, Kono formerly headed the defence and foreign ministries as well as the COVID vaccine deployment, taking up his current role in August 2022 after a failed bid to become prime minister.

Japan's digitisation effort has run into numerous snags, however. A contact-tracing app flopped during the pandemic and adoption of the government's My Number digital identification card has been slower than it hoped, amid repeated data mishaps.

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Return to tradition.

 

[augment]

It would have been funnier if they also announced the mandated adoption of minidiscs as replacement.

 

[Ahriman]

All of you are fucking ancient i had to Google search wtf is zip drives and jazz drives. Wtf nigga hide your power level

>the absolute state of zoomers

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

>the absolute state of zoomers

Isn't Justa an old hag?

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

It's Japan, there's probably some guy who's like 120 hammering out advanced GDP statistics on an abacus.

All of you are fucking ancient i had to Google search wtf is zip drives and jazz drives. Wtf nigga hide your power level

By saying that aren't you revealing your own power level though?

 

[Pepe Cortisona]

You forgot about jaz drives.

And the xD cards, and the Compact Flash, and the microdrive, and the smart media card...

 

[IamnottheNSA]

And the xD cards, and the Compact Flash, and the microdrive, and the smart media card...

At least Compact Flash is still around. And they have the same interface as the microdrives, meaning you can replace the old, much more fragile and much less capacious microdrives in old music players with them.

 

[Justa Grata Honoria]

Isn't Justa an old hag?

They can't decide at the same time i am Norwegian, slavic and a gypsy, old hag and zoomer. I also had geriatric pregnancy and not geriatric pregnancy i have schizophrenia and my partner and kids don't exist or my partner is beta asian cuck . At this point i just roll with it. By the end of this i might end up being a manlet troon or a dog for all i know.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

They can't decide at the same time i am Norwegian, slavic and a gypsy, old hag and zoomer. I also had geriatric pregnancy and not geriatric pregnancy i have schizophrenia and my partner and kids don't exist or my partner is beta asian cuck . At this point i just roll with it. By the end of this i might end up being a manlet troon or a dog for all i know.

That's why you have to be upfront with who you are on the Farms. For example, I'm Toji Suzuhara, and I'm a 14 year old from post-apocalyptic Japan, it's that simple

 

[indomitable snowman]

That's why you have to be upfront with who you are on the Farms. For example, I'm Toji Suzuhara, and I'm a 14 year old from post-apocalyptic Japan, it's that simple

Is it post apocalyptic because they got rid of the floppy disk?

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Is it post apocalyptic because they got rid of the floppy disk?

It's one of the factors, yes. Computers like the one my friend Kensuke here has don't use floppy disks

But the red ones (the school PCs) do use them, altough I think they use old tech to cut corners

 

[WhiskeyJack]

Last I checked, US nuclear weapon launch systems were still running off floppy disks. The big 8” floppies too, not those new fangled 3.5” ones.

I miss disks, of any type. My computer doesn’t even have a CD/DVD-RW drive.

 

[Kankichi Ryotsu]

It's so fucking over, the kikes are accelerating Japan's conversion to globohomo

 

[Vecr]

Last I checked, US nuclear weapon launch systems were still running off floppy disks. The big 8” floppies too, not those new fangled 3.5” ones.

I miss disks, of any type. My computer doesn’t even have a CD/DVD-RW drive.

I think they finished getting rid of those recently as well. Who knows what they use instead though.

 

[Toji Suzuhara]

Last I checked, US nuclear weapon launch systems were still running off floppy disks. The big 8” floppies too, not those new fangled 3.5” ones.

I miss disks, of any type. My computer doesn’t even have a CD/DVD-RW drive.

The less exposed a dangerous techonology is to the modern internet, the better, as I doubt that many hackers today know how to tamper with one of those old machines, or that there's high odds of one guy inserting his personal floppy disk instead of the WMDs one just before doing a test, and thus screwing all of the data

 

[Megaton Punch]

Seriously though, what the fuck can you even FIT on a floppy in The Year of Our Lord 2024?

The virgin "download update in five minutes" vs the Chad "insert disc 53 then press any key to continue"

 

[Ibanez RG 350EX]

I miss disks, of any type.

I don't. USB flash drives or cards are physically tiny, have enormous capacity, have fast read/write times, aren't vulnerable to magnets, and are physically durable compared to basically any portable storage medium of the past.

People who miss floppies or CDs don't remember what a pain in the ass they were a lot of times.

 

[Party Hat Wurmple]

Now if only they could do something about those damn dirty Otakus...

 

[Un Platano]

I don't. USB flash drives or cards are physically tiny, have enormous capacity, have fast read/write times, aren't vulnerable to magnets, and are physically durable compared to basically any portable storage medium of the past.

People who miss floppies or CDs don't remember what a pain in the ass they were a lot of times.

But flash drives don't have pretty rainbows in them. Don't you like to look at the pretty rainbows?

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

Is now the right time to copy that floppy?

 

[Unnecessary Surgery Land]

They can't decide at the same time i am Norwegian, slavic and a gypsy, old hag and zoomer. I also had geriatric pregnancy and not geriatric pregnancy i have schizophrenia and my partner and kids don't exist or my partner is beta asian cuck . At this point i just roll with it. By the end of this i might end up being a manlet troon or a dog for all i know.

I thought you were Pusheen eating popcorn