Japan's digital minister vows to rid the country of floppy disks....yes disks.

[TedCruz]

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https://www.zdnet.com/article/japans-digital-minister-vows-to-rid-the-country-of-floppy-disks/

Japan's digital minister has vowed to remove laws requiring that data sent to the government is shipped on floppy disks and other physical media.

Digital minister Taro Kono on Tuesday vowed to dismiss Japan's laws that have entrenched floppy disks and CD-ROMs in the nation's systems. In a tweet from his English Twitter account, Kono said he was declaring "war" on floppy disks as part of its digital transformation and enabling citizens to submit data online.

Kono explained there were about 1,900 articles in Japan's laws that require businesses to submit forms to the government on floppy disk. There are also 157 laws that require submissions specifically be sent on optical disks, magnetic disks, and magnetic tapes.

 

[Pixelman]

Digital minister sounds so funny to me.

 

[SpiderWeb]

Kono explained there were about 1,900 articles in Japan's laws that require businesses to submit forms to the government on floppy disk. There are also 157 laws that require submissions specifically be sent on optical disks, magnetic disks, and magnetic tapes.

LOL I feel like there used to be a time when those provisions were considered super high-end.

 

[mlnevese]

That's a lesson to never determine the means of information transmission by law... create a general law and let it be regulated by the authorities involved...

 

[oldschool]

I want my floppy disks back.

 

[TedCruz]

I want my floppy disks back.

Exactly I don't see a problem here! I think the problem is that other countries are not using enough floppy disks to store their info! We need ZIP drives back and the ZIP drive click of death!

Back in the day while doing my graduate research I used an LS-120 drive since we found them superior to ZIP disks plus the drive could also use regular 3.5 floppies.

 

[oldschool]

Exactly I don't see a problem here! I think the problem is that other countries are not using enough floppy disks to store their info! We need ZIP drives back and the ZIP drive click of death!

 

[mlnevese]

 

[show-Zi]

Japan is transitioning from the era of floppy disks to giant DVDs.

We can understand that emoji originated in Japan from the fact that there are still media that are no longer used.

 

[brambedkar59]

Digital minister sounds so funny to me.

Citizen: My Digital minister has become corrupt, help.
Tech support: Sir, have you tried flashing the new firmware v2.0.23?