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This attribute controls the content of the description and og:description elements. | Aside from intentionally hi-tech looking machinery, the production teams for shows tend to use old items as props. Despite the high availability and low cost of removable drives, USB pen drives, and burnable compact discs (let's fast forward to the 2010s, where burnable DVD drives are extremely common, and even Burnable Blu-Ray drives are not difficult to come by), the old standard 1.44MB plastic floppy disk seems to turn up a lot, especially in the hands of someone who would be very unlikely to use one. Not only will it turn up, but such older technology that appears will inevitably be jacked to the gills and capable of things it can't in real life. The Hacker/cracker character of a show usually has them, if only because they tend to be a fan of Schizo-Tech, which makes them look more out of place. If he's such a world-class computer expert, why is he using technology that's now over two decades old? Many newer machines do not even have built-in floppy drives. However, it's still used, because even the oldest and most computer illiterate viewer at least knows what a floppy disk looks like. |
