floppy disk
noun
: a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material on which data for a computer can be stored
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web As a storage medium, floppy disk technology dates back over 50 years. 
Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022 However, this view of leadership is as obsolete as a floppy disk. Grégoire Vigroux, Forbes, 6 June 2022 In 1989, twenty thousand public-health researchers around the world received a floppy disk purporting to contain an informational program about AIDS. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021 That’s still true, but nearly a year into a global pandemic, this question is about as obsolete as a floppy disk. Serena Kerrigan, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020 Bloom’s boxes—rebranded as Bloom Energy Servers around 2011—look like large refrigerators and contain stacks of fuel cells, each the size of a floppy disk. Rebecca Davis O’brien And Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020 The cypherpunks, a loose group of engineers and activists who saw encryption as fundamental to a free society, responded by distributing encryption software online and via floppy disk. Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020 Then an uncle gave us a Macintosh 128k, a small boxy Apple personal computer with a floppy disk drive on the front. Robin Kaiser-schatzlein, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020 Floppy Disks Avast founders Eduard Kucera and Pavel Baudis created their first anti-virus program in 1980s communist Czechoslovakia, when malware was mostly spread by floppy disks. Krystof Chamonikolas, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020 See More
Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 31 Aug. 2022 However, this view of leadership is as obsolete as a floppy disk. Grégoire Vigroux, Forbes, 6 June 2022 In 1989, twenty thousand public-health researchers around the world received a floppy disk purporting to contain an informational program about AIDS. Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 31 May 2021 That’s still true, but nearly a year into a global pandemic, this question is about as obsolete as a floppy disk. Serena Kerrigan, refinery29.com, 21 Dec. 2020 Bloom’s boxes—rebranded as Bloom Energy Servers around 2011—look like large refrigerators and contain stacks of fuel cells, each the size of a floppy disk. Rebecca Davis O’brien And Katherine Blunt, WSJ, 8 Dec. 2020 The cypherpunks, a loose group of engineers and activists who saw encryption as fundamental to a free society, responded by distributing encryption software online and via floppy disk. Anna Wiener, The New Yorker, 19 Oct. 2020 Then an uncle gave us a Macintosh 128k, a small boxy Apple personal computer with a floppy disk drive on the front. Robin Kaiser-schatzlein, The New Republic, 3 Aug. 2020 Floppy Disks Avast founders Eduard Kucera and Pavel Baudis created their first anti-virus program in 1980s communist Czechoslovakia, when malware was mostly spread by floppy disks. Krystof Chamonikolas, Bloomberg.com, 8 June 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1972, in the meaning defined above
Kids Definition
floppy disk
noun
: a small flexible plastic disk with a magnetic coating on which computer data can be stored