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red-iron-pine • yesterday at 2:15 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

people wax poetic about betamax and laserdisk but never heard anyone mention zip drive, in a good or bad way, lol

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cozzyd • yesterday at 2:30 PM

Before cd-rs, it felt like magic. Like a floppy but 100 times bigger!

scottLobster • yesterday at 4:07 PM

It was magical for about 2 years, then USB drives came along and made it look quaint.

anarticle • yesterday at 4:24 PM

I was the kid with the backpack Zip drive and Zip disks, like a weird Santa Claus of game piracy. Duke3d, Descent, Quake, you name it. All of it was in service of modem dueling each other. Wild times!