A floppy disk drive, also called a diskette or sometimes FDD, is a disk storage medium composed of a
disk of thin and flexible magnetic storage medium, sealed in a rectangular
plastic carrier lined with fabric that removes dust particles (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk). In 1952, It was
invented by Yoshiro Nakamatsu, who is Japanese
inventor, and this was commercialized by IBM in 1970’s (http://skhynix.tistory.com/835). At that time, this idea itself that we could store
computer data outside a computer was really innovative even though the storage
volume was relatively small, for example 5’25’’ FDD having 1.2MB. This
invention made people share a lot contents such as useful software, computer
games and so on. FDD was loved by many people but many drawbacks started
appearing. They were the risk of loss and error, inconvenience of delivery,
relatively expensive and many users also wanted more and more data capacity as
software technology was getting improved. Consequently, this innovative
invention had disappeared in the mist of history in 2011.
Nowadays,
many people use Cloud Services, which means services made available to users on
demand via the Internet from a cloud computing provider's servers as opposed to
being provided from a company's own on-premises servers (http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/cloud_services.html). The most famous Cloud
Services in South Korea is “Ndrive (http://ndrive.naver.com/index.nhn#view=login)” and “Webhard (https://www.webhard.net/).” The former is free up to
30GB for non-commercial users and the latter basically provides for commercial
users with fee, even though there are a lot of free coupons. Many Koreans can
store and share their data easily. They can access all of their backed-up stuff
at any place, at any time, just if they can use mobile devices and there is little
risk of theft, fire, unlike FDD. For example, many Korean young people often
upload their photographs in “Ndrive” right after they take pictures with their
smartphones and many Korean businessmen use “Webhard” in order to share their
official information and data for real time collaboration. The only drawback of
this Cloud Services, as I think, is security such as hacking. So some people
use a removable hard drive, USB, or their own hard drive without connecting any
external network, for the purpose of protecting their important data.
What is
difference between internet and web?
The Internet, which is an abbreviation of internetwork, is a way
of transporting content by linking your computer to other computers around the
world. The Web is software that lets people use that content or contribute
their own (http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/networking/19/314).
So I think that the internet means just massive network or server itself, while
the web enables people to access huge amount of information. The internet
itself has no hosting computer, unlike web site. In my opinion, it can be said
that if the internet is a road network, the web is a car.
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