I recently stumbled on this floppy and was intrigued: what were my internet favorites from 1998. Hmmm, could be interesting….
Of course, I cannibalized the floppy drive from my lone remaining desktop, so I ordered an external USB floppy drive and anxiously awaited its arrival. I actually have 4 floppies, but the others seemed less interesting.
The floppy drive finally arrived. I plugged it in, inserted the floppy, and then this dialog popped up. Damn.
I probably shouldn’t be surprised, the floppy is 25 years old and has been sitting who knows where for decades, but I was hoping. Only one of four floppies was readable, and was probably the least interesting. It’s not worth my time or money to try and recover the data, so I guess we’ll never know what was on it (other than Slashdot, I’m sure).
