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Gadgets which have become Obsolete
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Floppies
The colorful disk storage medium, floppies though invented in the late 1960s, were commercially available in 1971. These were improved upon by companies like IBM, Burroughs Corporation, etc, and were known as 'floppies', even after IBM announced its first media as 'Type 1 Diskette'. They became omnipresent for distributing software, transferring data, and creating backups. In 1996, there were an estimated five billion floppy disks in use, as the increasing size of software meant more floppies. CD-ROMs and online distribution started eating into the market share of the floppies, and made the new floppy technologies redundant. In 1998, Apple introduced the iMac sans a floppy drive, which marked the outdation of floppies. In 2003, Dell announced that floppy drive would no longer be pre-installed and in 2007, PC World stated that only two percent of the computers sold by them contained in-built floppy disk drives. In 2009, Hewlett-Packard stopped supplying standard floppy drives in business desktops.
