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   Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 08:51:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   people often ask me; "Foone, you're an amateur physical media historian, when is it spelled disc, and when is it disk?"

   Well it's simple!
   Discs grow down from the ceiling, and disks grow up from the floor.

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     Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 08:52:11 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     disappointingly, the word for "floppy disk" in greek is δισκέτα, which is basically "diskette".

     I was really hoping it was just δίσκος, so the greeks would be calling them floppy discuses.

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     Cyber Yuki (yuki2501@masto.hackers.town)'s status on Thursday, 08-May-2025 08:52:42 JST Cyber Yuki

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     @foone I was gonna make a joke about Greeks launching disks with their hands, but then I remembered TRON did it first.