<story><title>Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the &apos;90s</title><url>https://tedium.co/2023/11/17/3m-floppy-disks-history/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>TheCleric</author><text>I like how they started off making sandpaper and that’s still the thing I buy from them to this day. Their Cubitron sandpaper is my go to for woodworking.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why 3M stopped making floppy disks in the &apos;90s</title><url>https://tedium.co/2023/11/17/3m-floppy-disks-history/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>powera</author><text>All the comments are suggesting, roughly, that 3M is somehow &amp;quot;evil&amp;quot; for getting out of the floppy disk business.&lt;p&gt;But nobody uses floppy disks anymore!  (This is a good thing.)&lt;p&gt;Why shouldn&amp;#x27;t they have gotten out before the complete collapse of the floppy-drive market?</text></comment>