For me, it must have been 20 years ago in 2005. I got Kingston’s 512MB flash drive for a Christmas present and oh my how great it felt to hold so much of memory in my pocket. After that it was clear to me that there is no use for floppies to me anymore.
The event production world is simultaneously very advanced and antiquated at the same time. I used a floppy disc earlier this year because some lighting consoles still use them. We then used said lighting console to control a projection mapped surface with motion tracking.