1992, Don’t Copy, That Floppy!

Levels of cringe previously thought to be unattainable

The 3.5" floppy disk's 1.44MB capacity in 1992 could store ~1 page of genomic data. Today's DNA data storage (Church et al. 2016) can pack 215 petabytes in a single gram - equivalent to 150 million floppies. Nature's information density remains unmatched.

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Copying floppy disks was my favorite thing to do :) Some protections were pretty cool, like adding intentional bad sectors on it to recognize original media. I learned a lot :)

I am going to guess that the grand total of people who changed their decision to copy / not copy based on this "public service announcement" from 1992 through today, is somewhere around zero.

I would’ve thought this was cringe even back then 🫤

Fun fact: the advertising coy that created the following ad didn't license the song (ie. they pirated it)

Oh 1992 😂🤣🤣🤣

If anything, this plants the idea.

One of my first jobs, in high school, was to copy software for the staff. I finished the years work the first week so I hadn't much to do anyway..