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It’s taken until 2024, but Japan has suddenly said farewell to puffy discs.

People were also required to use the outdated storage devices to submit documents to the government up until next month, and more than 1, 000 laws required their use.

However, these regulations have been suddenly overturned, according to Digital Minister Taro Kono.

In 2021, Mr Kono had “declared battle” on floppy disks. On Wednesday, about three years later, he announced:” We have won the war on puffy disks”!

Since he was hired, Mr. Kano has made it his mission to completely replace outdated systems. He had previously stated that he would “get off of the telephone system.”

Japan, which was once regarded as a technology powerhouse, has since fallen behind in the global wave of online transformation due to a strong resistance to change.

For example, organizations have continued to favor fax machines over e-mail; earlier plans to get rid of these devices from government buildings were voided due to backlash.

The news was extensively- discussed on Chinese social media, with one person on X, previously known as Twitter, calling puffy disks a” symbol of an antiquated administration”.

” Floppy disks are still being used by the federal today” That’s so archaic… I guess they’re only full of old people”, read another post on X.

Some comments were more romantic. One user wrote,” I wonder if floppy disks will start appearing on auction sites.”

The square-shaped storage devices that were developed in the 1960s became obsolete in the 1990s as more effective backup options were developed.

A three and a half inch floppy device could hold only 1.44MB of information. More than 22, 000 for disks may be needed to simulate a memory keep storing 32GB of data.

Sony, the next company of the plates, ended its manufacturing in 2011.

Japan established a Digital Agency in September 2021, which Mr. Kono is in charge of as part of its tardy effort to digitize its administration.

However, it might be simpler to say than to do Japan’s digital work.

Despite the government’s efforts to eliminate them, many Japanese businesses also need standard documents that can be endorsed with sculpted personal stamps, or hanko.

According to the local news The Japan Times, people are “glacially moving away from those passports.”

And it was not until 2019 that the country’s last pager provider closed its service, with the final private subscriber explaining that it was the preferred method of communication for his elderly mother.

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While searching for a 12-year-old believed to be the victim of a turtle attack, American police discovered human remains.

The baby was last seen swimming with a home near the distant Indian city of Nganmarriyanga, which is located about 7 hours south of Darwin in the Northern Territory (NT ).

Older Sgt Erica Gibson, a member of the police force, said,” This is devastating news for the home, the area, and people involved in the search.” Police would stand by those who were affected.

Sgt Gibson had earlier reported to ABC News that a dark snake had been spotted in the instant area.

Up to 40 community members assisted police in their search for the 12-year-old after the child was reported missing immediately after the 12-year-old was reported missing. They scoured the region by foot, by ship and with the use of aircraft, covering difficult terrain with heavy vegetation and a small, winding waterway.

No information was provided as to whether the reptile believed to have attacked the baby had been discovered.

Earlier on Wednesday, NT Police Minister Brent Potter reiterated the president’s security information and claimed wildlife officials were authorized to “remove” the snake from the place once it had been located.

We reside in a place where turtles occupy our water bodies; this serves as a reminder to” stay out of the ocean as best we can.”

Saltwater alligators were nearly extinct, but numbers have risen since the training was outlawed in the 1970s, from Broome in Western Australia to Gladstone in Queensland, where they can be found.

The NT is now home to an estimated 100, 000 salt alligators, more than anywhere else in the universe. Strikes if are remarkable.

There have been at least two other crocodile attacks in the NT in the past year: a nine-year-old boy who was hurt while swimming in Kakadu National Park in January and a farmer who escaped a beast’s jaws by biting it back in October, but there has n’t been a fatal attack there since 2018.

Queensland, nevertheless, has had a series of fatal attacks in recent years, including a 16- yr- old son who was killed in the Torres Strait in April.

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