According to the reports, technology writers took time out Monday to write obituaries for the floppy disc after Japanese technology giant said it would stop making them in March 2011.
A eulogist from Wired wrote, "RIP, my floppy friend."
It sold 12 million floppy discs in Japan last year but demand has dropped to the point where it they are no longer profitable, Sony said.
In most markets the technology has been replaced by UBS flash cards and improved storage on hard drives.
It was also reported that a writer from PC World put the floppy in perspective.
He said, "Consider those 12 million disks sold in Japan last year. Together they can hold about 17GB of data, which isn't even enough to fill a single-sided Blu-ray Disc."
