Japan’s Ministry of Digital Affairs has declared war on classic and old floppy disk after acknowledging that there are still 1,900 government forms and documents that continue to rely on these and other outdated information storage technologies.
Floppy disks, CDs and minidiscs are still used in Japan as the usual support for information by the public administration
And it is that despite being considered in the land of the Rising Sun as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, the presence of the nineties antecedent of this pendrive in terms of the ease of transporting information is still is very large.
Taro Kono, recently named the new holder of the portfolio of the Japanese Digital Ministry, has particularly stated: floppy war via his Twitter account, pointing to the existence of approximately 1,900 types of government and administrative procedures that still require the use of floppy disks, CDs, and minidiscs.
Developed in 1964, magnetic disks evolved in terms of size, density and capacities and were the most popular 3.5-inch floppy disks originated in 1982 and that even in the early 2000s they still had read/write units in the new computer models, although they gradually lost ground to the physical storage medium that is still the reference: the USB-A pen drive.
The effort to modernize Japan by the ministry led by Taro Kono is now aimed at updating the format in which it is still common today to send forms and applications: recorded on a floppy disk. Kono confirms that he has the support of this initiative of Fumio Kishida, the country’s prime minister, in a new phase of technological modernization. Previously, the goals to end this obsolescence focused on: in the fax and in the stamps and tampons traditionally used to seal carts and documents.
curious Sony, a leading manufacturer of floppy disks, stopped producing them 11 years ago. and even in the United States, the use of floppy disks was already eliminated in 2019 by the Department of Defense. Lately, its use has become more recreational than anything, as has happened with Flopptron, a quirky symphony orchestra consisting of 512 floppy disk drives and 16 hard drives.
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