QuickCheck: Is it true that floppy disks are still in use?

FOR anyone over the age of 40 and familiar with computers, floppy disks were a fact of life until what feels like relatively recently. For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the transportable storage medium that was in vogue from the 1970s till the late 90s.

If that still isn't ringing any bells, an image of it is used as the "save" icon for many programs and apps. They were composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium encased in a square or nearly-square plastic enclosure.