zestinpeace

Another animal on the computer

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Call me Zest. :3 Internet furry, fan of art, computers, and overthinking. Sydney, Australia. Born '98.


desplesda
@desplesda

(Photo courtesy Floppy Disk Fever)

When people ask me: “Why are you into floppy disks today?” the answer is: “Because I forgot to get out of the business.”

Everybody else in the world looked at the future and came to the conclusion that this was a dying industry. Because I’d already bought all my equipment and inventory, I thought I’d just keep this revenue stream. I stuck with it and didn’t try to expand.

Over time, the total number of floppy users has gone down. However, the number of people who provided the product went down even faster.If you look at those two curves, you see that there is a growing market share for the last man standing in the business, and that man is me.

I found this to be a really interesting interview!


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It's a good illustration of how so much of our tech right now relies a great deal on the manufacturing chains. Like, the 9 parts to floppies? Now we fab silicon out to build portable storage (esp USB sticks), and it gets handed out as merch.

"Me, I just like to get up in the morning, have people ask me questions, and try to solve problems. My business is a little bit of an adventure for me every day."

man yeah, even as i was reading it at a normal human pace one of those popped up... i waited for it to tell me to subscribe or something but it did nothing, just sitting in the way of the text, until i clicked it. kind of a weird choice for a website with long articles.