An End of an Era: The Floppy Disk

s31523 writes: "For those of us who have been in the IT arena for a while, we all remember installing our favorite OS, network client, power application, etc. by feeding the computer what seemed to be an endless supply of 5.25 inch soft floppy disks. We rejoiced when the hard 3.5 inch floppy disks came out which cut our install media by 1/3. We practically did back flips when the data CD-ROM came out and declared: we will never need any other disk than this! It gives me sadness to report the beginning of the end for the floppy, computer giant PC World has announced it will no longer carry the floppy disk."