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The wild world of pre-cloud data storage

Trivia challenge

Before the cloud, we had spinning disks and prayer — see how much you remember about the glory days of physical storage.

Floppy Disks Optical Media Tape Drives Capacity History

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The iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk that dominated the '90s had a maximum storage capacity of how much?

A 720 KB B 1.44 MB C 2.88 MB D 4.5 MB

Correct! The standard 3.5-inch high-density floppy held 1.44 MB — barely enough for a handful of Word documents by modern standards. It's wild to think entire operating systems were once distributed on stacks of these little guys.

Not quite! The correct answer is 1.44 MB.…