The floppy disk

Leaning against the wooden totem is a nondescript floppy disk, the kind that used to be so common in the late 90s. As you take it in your hands you feel the bubbles and warping caused by years of heat.

The contents are unreadable.

2 comments:

1. ouroboros, Tue Sep 27 20:59:14 -0500 2005

   I like that the hints at time-period (“common in the late 90s”, “years of heat”) and the restriction that they suggest, but they don’t quite convince me that it is an exceptional object. I wonder if it were an 8in floppy disk might be more alien, while still setting a timeframe (only 10yrs difference, and depending upon the length of the hot years, perhaps negligable).

2. Desi, Thu Sep 29 05:33:21 -0500 2005

   For me the entire point of the floppy disk is that it isn’t exceptional. A lot of the things we value are really quite boring to other people. The real story of the floppy disk is what once could have been inside it: family photos? half-finished and never-sent love letters? It’s quite sad that we’ll never know.

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