The war on the relic is finally won. Now on to fax machines?
Japan's digital minister, Taro Kono, confirmed that the Japanese government has finally rid itself of floppy disks."We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28!" digital minister Taro Kono told Reuters on Wednesday.Kono pledged in 2022 to eliminate law requiring floppy disks and CD-ROMs when sending data to the Japanese government. However, the decommissioning of the relic took another year and a half to be announced.As of a few weeks ago, Japan's Digital Agency had removed 1,034 regulations that governed their use, leaving only one that was related to vehicle recycling.