Why Do Boeing 747s Still Use Floppy Disks? Many small business owners would relate.

If you're old enough to remember floppy disks then, well, you're old.

I'm one of those people. I remember carrying around stacks of the little storage devices with me whenever I needed 1.4 MB of data to save. I remember when, just to install Microsoft Office, I had to insert, remove and reinsert dozens — yes, dozens — of those little things. I remember feeling cool because the little floppy disk was so much more advanced than those old-fashioned 5.25-inch ones. And I remember the excitement when (ready?) "zip" drives were introduced that had these newfangled looking floppy disks which could hold almost 100 times the data! That's 100 megabytes!

Wow. And then I remind myself that my smartphone how holds the equivalent of 177,000 floppy disks — yes 177,000 — and I just feel old.