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Magic Floppy Disk
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Aside from intentionally hi-tech looking machinery, the production teams for shows tend to use old items as props. Despite the high availability and low cost of removable drives, USB pen drives, and burnable CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Ray discs, the old standard 1.44MB plastic floppy disk seems to turn up a lot, especially in the hands of someone who would be very unlikely to use one. Not only that, but such older technology that appears will inevitably be jacked to the gills and capable of things it can't/couldn't do in real life. The Hacker/cracker character of a show usually has them, if only because they tend to be a fan of Schizo Tech, which makes them look more out of place. If he's such a world-class computer expert, why is he using technology that's now over two decades old? Most newer machines do not even have built-in floppy drives. However, it's still used, because even the oldest and most computer illiterate viewer at least knows what a floppy disk looks like. Sometimes the disks used in The Future will at least have a higher memory capacity — the writers took Moore's Law into account, they just didn't predict that the storage device itself would fundamentally change. Most commonly averted in any show aimed at children born roughly after Zip drives (also a no-show on TV) were invented. Japan's love of technology usually means anime will feature whatever computer media is popular that year. That comes with its own problems, notably Zeerust — for example, Neon Genesis Evangelion (and the subsequent series of movie remakes) seems to suggest that DAT cassettes would be popular for portable audio in 2015 again (when it never really took off to begin with). You might think this trope would also apply to audio media, but CDs replaced vinyl and even cassette tapes almost immediately in TV shows. Which is extra-strange, because it took well over a decade for them to catch on in Real Life. Vinyl still occasionally makes an appearance, justified by the fact it is still the format of choice for audiophiles and professional club DJs. On the other hand, mp3 players are still catching up. Compare with Trope Breaker. See Technology Marches On if the item seems outdated now, but was state-of-the-art when the work was made. May lead to younger audiences wondering what the hell those funny-looking CD-ROMs are. |
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Live Free or Die Hard, known abroad as Die Hard 4.0, has USB thumb drives. Just to make yourself an idea of how long it took Hollywood to adopt these devices (which hit mass market in late 2000, along with generic "mass storage" drivers), this film was premiered in 2007 and it's one of the first films that used them. Of course, it also has the Big Bad downloading the entire contents of an immense server farm (which took up several rooms and required an immense cooling system) onto an external hard drive, so it's not so much averting this trope as updating it to slightly less obsolete technology. Though you do wonder why the government didn't just use an external hard drive instead of the server farm in the first place... |
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Played with in Arby 'n' the Chief during one episode in which the Chief attempts to download 900 Gigabytes of porn. When called out on this, he responds with one of the show's many funny moments: "dun worries. i has 2 floppeh disks!" | |
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In Serial Experiments Lain, when Lain leaks the member list of the Knights of the Eastern Calculus onto the Wired, leaving them open for assassination by the Men in Black, one man responds by filling a briefcase with papers and Magneto-Optical discs and trying to flee. | |
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The SCP Foundation literally has 150 Magic Floppy Disks that contain the entire internet. Only the first twelve contain pornography, though, which shows something of an unusual optimism on the part of the writer. | |
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In the Freakazoid! episode "Dexter's Date", The Lobe makes a bootleg copy of all television programming onto a single VHS tape. If he only taped the original content at the time, he'd be barely half filled. Bah dum tish. | |
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The Recruit, released in 2003, also uses USB drives. However it also doesn't get things completely correct as it treats them like some super-technology that can be used to steal data from computers secured with no floppy disks or CD-ROM drives. OK they may not have been that common in use in 2003, but still you'd think the CIA would get an idea. Furthermore Fridge Logic kicks in when you realize that these supposedly super-secured computers aren't if they have USB ports (the U in which stands for "universal" i.e. works with lots of stuff) with no restrictions on them. | |
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Resident Evil, being made in Japan mid-The '90s, uses the much, much cooler-looking than floppies MO disc, which still have the same basic recognizable shape. In the Nintendo GameCube remake, these MO discs were inserted into customized Game Cubes. | |
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In Red Dwarf, a sci-fi comedy show taking place on a futuristic mining vessel, people still use videocassettes...except they're triangular. It is explained in the 2009 Easter special that DVDs have become outdated by videos, since videos have one precious advantage—you can put them back in the box with minimal risk of breaking them. Plus they're bigger, and thus harder to lose. In "Bodyswap" we see Lister's mind being downloaded onto a Microcassette (the sort used in voicemail systems) though this is Played for Laughs. In "The Prommised Land" it turns out Holly, the AI that controls the entire ship, has a back-up comprising a really big floppy disk. As in, it takes two people to lift it. | |
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Darkman and The Negotiator both feature data that would realistically take up dozens of floppy disks of the time (research data on an incredibly complex artificial skin, and dozens of recorded phone calls, respectively) on one Magic Floppy Disk and two, respectively. | |
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In Star Trek: First Contact, Zefram Cochrane keeps his tunes of some kind of green plastic disc the size of a mini DVD. Given that he does not use any menus to select music, "Magic Carpet Ride" might be the only song on it (or it's a mixtape). Long way to regress After the End... | |
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Patlabor had the operating systems for Humongous Mecha stored on a single floppy. One factory producing said mecha stored its backups on thousands of them. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, the ZERO System is stored on...a floppy disk (or a series of floppies). Not even a ZIP disk, a floppy disk. | |
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An episode of Garfield and Friends lampshades this trope. When Jon's record player is destroyed by Garfield and Odie, everyone he meets while searching for a replacement immediately assumes he's looking for compact discs. When he finally finds one, it's from an elderly antiques shop owner, who comments that they'd used records when he was a boy. Inverted because the episode was made in the early 1990s, when CDs were just coming into vogue. | |
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Justified in Ned's Declassified School Survival Guide; the school pictures being taken on film were a Plot Point when Cookie planned to hack the camera to upload a better picture of himself. | |
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In the "Awakening" series of episodes of Gargoyles, important high-tech information regarding cybernetic technology is stored on floppies. Hilariously, the 2023 NECA figure for David Xanatos comes with a floppy disk in tribute to this, although its design is more rounded like a Zip disk, which would make more sense. | |
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Justified, then immediately inverted, in Commander Kitty. The crew is surprised to see massive server farms in Zenith's base, but figure that it's pretty logical, considering that's housing the data for the minds of about half of all the galaxy's inhabitants. They aren't prepared when they open up, revealing themselves to contain the physical bodies of those inhabitants—the minds are stored on a single hard drive. | |
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Averted in Dollhouse where entire brainscans of humans were loaded onto a hot-swappable 3.5" hard disk drive, of indeterminate capacity. Given the near-future timeframe of the show, these could plausibly hold many terabytes of information. | |
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In S1m0ne you have software advanced enough to reproduce a fully computer generated actress but the producer still uses a floppy. | |
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000-featured movie Time Chasers, where, as Crow puts it, "eight 5¼-inch floppies hold the keys to time travel". | |
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Some TV dramas are more current: several Law & Order episodes have featured secret data - mostly voyeuristic camera footage on SVU - on memory cards and USB drives. | |
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In the Futurama episode "How Hermes Requisitioned His Groove Back", Bender has his entire mind copied onto a floppy disk (for some reason the episode's antagonist thought that it would be easier to get rid of Bender by losing a copy of his memory rather than deleting it outright). This was lampshaded in the episode's DVD Commentary. There's also the episode where Bender, a sapient robot 1000 years in the future, gathers incriminating evidence against Nixon with a cassette tape. It's clear that they're doing this for laughs. | |
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Dark Fall Lights Out, having Time Travel as part of its gameplay, almost starts off with a floppy disk mysteriously turning up in 1912, which can be read on a laptop in 2004. Later, it turns out that an Underwater Base in 2090 AD contains DVDs, floppy disks, and even MP3 players. | |
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In the first two Metal Gear Solid games, the player character is given an MO disk to carry. | |
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In Rebuild of Evangelion, the careful observer will notice a strange dissonance. Shinji has his cassette tape often, and at the same time Unit 05's OS is shown to use at least 250 terabytes of memory. The second film explained this by having the tape player originally belong to Gendo who is conceivably old enough to have used it but it's a bit of a stretch. Shinji keeps it as long as he has because it is one of, maybe, half a dozen items or ideas that mean his father loves him. This may account for his never upgrading to anything newer. The Second Impact is a likely partial reason for the "old" technology. When the world is suffering from a major catastrophe and millions are dead, consumer electronics take a back seat to other priorities. Similarly, Asuka is sometimes shown playing games on a Bandai WonderSwan, a handheld console that was discontinued in 2003 in the real world. | |
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In Transformers: Robots in Disguise, the plans for the Global Spacebridge (a Portal Network the Autobots use to get to the action) are stored on what looks like a 1.44 MB floppy. Granted, it's apparently a giant floppy, but still. For additional hilarity, the disk is read, not by putting it in a drive, but by Scourge and Sky-Byte looking at it intently. | |
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Done intentionally in the 2007 novel 13 Reasons Why by Jay Asher. He says in a question and answer in the back of the book that he made Hannah record her suicide notes on a tape specifically to avoid technology marching on and thus making an Unintentional Period Piece. Tapes are outdated, but not so outdated that people wouldn't know what they are. This also serves as a minor plot point, with Clay having to borrow a Walkman from one of his friends in order to listen to the tapes. This makes a bit less sense in the 2017 Netflix adaptation, since anyone who is the protagonist's age in 2017 (who would have been born in 2000-2001) probably would have even less of a memory of tapes than someone their age in 2007 (who would have been born in 1990-1991). | |
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Inverted on Leverage, where The Cracker Hardison is able to break into almost any modern computer system effortlessly. At least once, though, the computer the team needs to break into is a 1970s dinosaur. It's too old for him to be familiar with, too simple to have any backdoors, and too primitive for his cracking software to interface with. The fifty-dollar hunk of junk is ironically far more secure than a million-dollar supercomputer precisely because it's so unsophisticated. | |
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Short-lived time-travel series Time Trax featured a man from the 2190s using what looked like laserdiscs. | |
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An episode of Sonic X has Rouge able to copy the entire database of a bio-lab/space colony onto a MiniDisc. For those unfamiliar, you just need to know that they're not big enough to fit that size database, and they were a flop in the IT field. note The classic 80-minute 292kbps MiniDisc has a capacity of about 171MiB. This only applies if you interpret that as "MiniDisc" and not "Mini disk". | |
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Face/Off has Shawn Archer reading a data file that Big Bad Castor Troy has stored on a Zip disk. Not only that, his computer conveniently has a built-in Zip drive. | |
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Strider on the NES has video calls, or at least audio transcriptions, being recorded on 5¼ floppies. | |
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A variant occurs in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, where Nazi Evil Genius Arnim Zola, one of the bad guys from the first movie, is revealed to have had his consciousness uploaded to a computer...a 1970's computer. While the requisite storage capacity is at least somewhat justified by the computer having loads and loads of tape drives, processing power and speed is another matter; it's highly unlikely that a computer of that vintage would be fast enough to emulate a human brain, which we can't do even with modern computers. Also, tape has notoriously slow access times, which would make quick thinking all the more difficult. | |
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Carefully analyzed in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, where a minor character (a hacker) uses thousands of floppy disks to store all the data. He was so paranoid that it's mentioned just just how ridiculous the concept was. However, it did save the data from an attacking hacker who probably hadn't even seen a floppy drive in his life. In cyberspace, filesharing is shown by a Digital Avatar of a floppy, which is fully acceptable because that small icon in your word processor that reads "Save" is a floppy disk as well. | |
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Ms. Calendar's spell and Maggie Walsh's data are on one in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. | |
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The Transformers (Marvel): One story had Optimus Prime's entire personality, along with his millions of years worth of lived memories, stored on one 5 ¼" disk! | |
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Journey to Silius has floppy disks in the future, too. | |
| Magic Floppy Disk / int_fbee71f9 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Magic Floppy Disk / int_fbee71f9 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Journey to Silius (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Magic Floppy Disk / int_fbee71f9 |
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