Who Am I? Week #782

[kingchuck69]

Welcome to the 782nd edition of Who Am I?, the weekly game where I dish out a daily clue to a subject and you have to guess who or what it is.

Every day, the clues get easier. The winner of this week's game gets a piece of my gratitude.

This week's subject is a THING.

CLUE #1: I was created in the 1970s.

 

[JHDK]

Sony Walkman.

 

[Listener]

Videocassette recorder

 

[HecticArt]

McDonald’s Happy Meal

 

[Madison]

HBO

 

[scotchandcigar]

Atari home video game console

 

[Wolf]

A #1 70s song in DRC Madness #41?


Rubik’s Cube

 

[Channel98]

Mr. Pibb soda. It was introduced in 1972, became spicier as "Pibb Xtra" in 2003 and returned to the original flavor and name in 2025.

 

[sadchild]

<-this guy

or Simon

 

[Gamecock]

The floppy disk. Or as kids these days call it "The Save Icon"

 

[JHDK]

The floppy disk. Or as kids these days call it "The Save Icon"

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Why were those called floppy disks? They are what I had in school but I remember these as floppy disks. My mom's computer (the first we had in the house) used them. That thing didn't have a mouse and it had printer paper where you'd have to peel off the holes on either side along the perforated lines.



and these were actually floppy.

 

[scotchandcigar]

Why were those called floppy disks? They are what I had in school but I remember these as floppy disks. My mom's computer (the first we had in the house) used them. That thing didn't have a mouse and it had printer paper where you'd have to peel off the holes on either side along the perforated lines.

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and these were actually floppy.

The big ones were older. By the time they came out with the small ones, they managed to get a higher data density (for the time) on a smaller disk. The disk was still floppy, but now the case was rigid. It was just more practical.

 

[JHDK]

hey managed to get a higher data density (for the time) on a smaller disk

Of course.

The big ones were older. By the time they came out with the small ones, they managed to get a higher data density (for the time) on a smaller disk. The disk was still floppy, but now the case was rigid. It was just more practical.

I'm just arguing the point that the casing was no longer floppy.

If you want to go by the internal disk being floppy Zip Drives should have been Floppy Zips, or up until recently with today's solid state drives, most external hard drives should have been called Floppy Externals.

 

[Channel98]

Floppy Externals.

Sounds like a personal problem.

 

[JHDK]

Sounds like a personal problem.

Pills can fix that pretty easily. Just ask Bob Dole.

 

[Channel98]

Four years after doing a Viagra commercial, Bob Dole appeared on The Tonight Show and proved he had a sense of humor.

 

[scotchandcigar]

If you want to go by the internal disk being floppy Zip Drives should have been Floppy Zips, or up until recently with today's solid state drives, most external hard drives should have been called Floppy Externals.

Hard drives are ..... um ... hard. The hard drive inside the case is a hard disk that spins on an axle. That's how they got the name. Inside a floppy disk case is a thin, flexible disk.




And this is a hard drive

 

[JHDK]

Good call, you're right. I didn't know (very stupidly now knowing) that the disk in an old hard drive was rigid.

But you see my point right? I get it's talking about the internals but when you start off with those huge floppy disks from the 80's where both the internal disk and the external shell were floppy and you move on the the ones I grew up with that had a rigid shell it kinda seems like they should have been named something different.

I guess I missed the the 5.25 inch but from the pics they also look to have a floppy external shell.

I went from 8 inch to 3.5 and it always seemed weird they had the same name despite their container's obvious difference.

Also, tbh, I didn't know floppy referred to the internals until today. Maybe I should put that in the "Admit You're Dumb" thread.

I went from 8 inch to 3.5

Also again, I wouldn't be me if I didn't acknowledge the obvious joke here.

8 inches was always somewhat of a pain to jam into my back pocket but enjoyable to play with. 3.5 were way more convenient but way less fulfilling when I would use them to fill up my drive.

 

[kingchuck69]

CLUE #2: I became famous for my infomercials.

 

[Listener]

Ginsu knives