floppy
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Floppy or bucket hats - or what Payton calls “Gilligan” hats - are a popular NFL trend and coincidentally, Nathaniel Hackett was fond of wearing one when he was the Broncos’ head coach last year.
From Washington Times • Aug. 8, 2023
Floppy disks were invented in the 1960s, but they have been used less and less since the late 1990s.
From NewsForKids.net • Sep. 2, 2022
Floppy disks - so-called because the inner material was thin and flexible - were created in the late 1960s, but were falling out of fashion three decades later thanks to more efficient storage solutions.
From BBC • Sep. 1, 2022
Floppy disks — like VHS, telegraph and rotary phones — have created false positives for how disruption leads to extinction of old technologies.
From Forbes • Mar. 30, 2014
“Look at the fin. Floppy on top. It’s not a shark.”
From "Shouting at the Rain" by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
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