 It's taken until 2024, but Japan has finally said goodbye to floppy disks. Up until last month, people were still being asked to submit documents to the government using this outdated storage device. For those listening who aren't familiar with the term floppy disk, it's a type of disk storage made up of a thin and flexible disk in a square enclosure that is manually inserted into a computer. It was first developed in 1971 and was subsequently replaced.