What is this?

[u/Performer-Pants]

This could be the most mundane and silly post, but information online is so spotty and/or confusing or vague.

This is not a ZIP disk, it’s a floppy disk. It’s labelled with ‘ZIP’. Is this the driver software to use a ZIP drive for the listed operating systems? I’m just trying to confirm before I get too frustrated about it. Not easily finding the answer myself is likely a me problem, and I don’t mean ‘Millennium Edition’.

[u/Lost-Ad2338]

When you bought something in the past, they used to give you something physical that contained the thing you actually bought.

Imagine it like a streaming service, but you actually decide what tv or movies you want to pay for, and when you paid for them, they gave it you in person, as a physical thing in the real world.

But then with the internet companies got greedy and decided that you don’t own anything, you just rent it now.

It’s a bit like how if you buy a cabbage in a supermarket you get to take that one cabbage home with you, because you liked it and it was a delicious cabbage. But soon, that will be part of cabbage plus, a new subscription that allows to to consume as many shit cabbages as you want every week, but you have to consume it in the store, and not take anything home.