Japan to end government use of floppy disks

Reuters report that Japan declares victory in effort to end government use of floppy disks:

Japan’s government has finally eliminated the use of floppy disks in all its systems, two decades since their heyday, reaching a long-awaited milestone in a campaign to modernise the bureaucracy.

By the middle of last month, the Digital Agency had scrapped all 1,034 regulations governing their use, except for one environmental stricture related to vehicle recycling.

There is also another goal to eliminate fax machines. These two pieces of obsolete technologies have had their prime, a long time ago. I wonder how they used floppies since even the most basic office document couldn’t even fit on one, let alone a PDF, or even an image in high resolution.

The 3.5" floppy was a Sony invention, that replaced all the previous ones.