{"id":544195,"date":"2010-04-27T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tlt.fandm.edu\/?p=1648"},"modified":"2010-04-27T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:53:10","slug":"the-floppy-is-dead-time-to-move-memories-to-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544195","title":{"rendered":"The Floppy is Dead: Time to Move Memories to the Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data.<\/p>\n<p>The history of data storage and backup is littered with the corpses of dead formats. Seven years ago I wrote about the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/zd\/tc_zd\/storytext\/250362\/35947375\/SIG=128qs1i1t\/*http:\/\/www.pcmag.com\/article2\/0,2817,0,00.asp?kc=PCYH104039TX1B0000663\">beginning of the end of 3.5-inch floppy disks<\/a>. At the time, it was still a popular portable storage medium, and I was derided as a heretic. Now, Sony has finally decided to stop making 3.5-inch\u00a0floppy disks, which pretty much marks the end of the format.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/zd\/20100426\/tc_zd\/250362\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/tltatfandm.wordpress.com\/1648\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=tlt.fandm.edu&#038;blog=7318144&#038;post=1648&#038;subd=tltatfandm&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sony&#8217;s decision to end 3.5-inch disk production is just another signal that local storage media and platforms cannot be trusted with your precious data. The history of data storage and backup is littered with the corpses of dead formats. Seven years ago I wrote about the\u00a0beginning of the end of 3.5-inch floppy disks. At the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5998,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}