Awww man! This makes me feel so old!

You're joking, aren't you?

...Anyway, just in case, perl is a language, aub was a perl script used when news clients still lacked bynary attachment decoding capabilities, uuencode/decode are encoder and decoder to put binaries attachments into 7bit ASCII news messages, mtools are tools used by Unix systems to handle DOS floppy filesystems, Risc Station was the first IBM workstation to use POWER Risc architecture, that later, adding features from Motorola 88000 Risc CPU (they formed a joint-venture) gave birth to PowerPC architecture, still used in all the current gen consoles, including Cell's general purpose cores, ED was a 2.88MB floppy disc, SyQuest produced magnetic removable disc cartridges and drives in the tens and hundreds MB capacity range competing with iomega Zip  and MO drives are magneto-optical drives, still used in niche markets, while downgraded cheap versions of its close relative and competitor, phase-change optical drives (using only lasers and not a magnetic field too), gave birth to CD-RW, DVD-RAM and DVD+-RW.

Sad times indeed, floppies were great and saved my school work many times...

The one nice thing about floppies that USB drives haven't replaced, and I doubt ever will, is that they were practically disposable, like "here's that document you were looking for ... you can keep the floppy".

[edit:  on the other hand, CDRs are pretty much at that point IMO.  That's why they still have a use alongside DVDs.] 

I wasn't.... i said pretty early in this thread I have barely used floppy discs at all.

I had heard of perl and risc, but didn't know what they were... and I knew about MO drives (but never really using them I don't tend to shorten it to MO) The res of the list I had never heard of the term, nor did I know anything about your explanation.

However thanks for telling me

Thank god. I hated those things.

death of a legend. long live the new king? usb

We still use them at work as key disks for copy protected software. New versions now have web-based activations, but there still are many cases where we need to use the older software.

And right above my computer I still have disk boxes full of 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 floppies with DOS based games :) Most of the good games were backed up to CDs, but I couldn't afford to do all of them when CDs were $8 each...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuencoding

It was commonly used to post binary files in Usenet, encoded as text.