Two thirds of British children don't know what a floppy disk is

They’re entirely synonymous with another era, so perhaps it’s no surprise to learn that two thirds of children today don’t know what a floppy disk is.

A new YouGov survey examined 2,011 children aged 6-18 and asked them to identify a number of different technologies from previous generations – from overhead projectors to video cassettes and disposable cameras.

And it seems that floppy disks are firmly resigned to the past, after two thirds of children (67 percent) admitted that they didn’t know what a floppy disk is – or incorrectly identified it.

Perhaps more amusingly, several children identified it as a save icon.

But by no means was the floppy disk the hardest item to identify – with that accolade instead going to Ceefax/Teletext, which 86 percent of children were unable to identify or mislabel.

It was on par with a pager, which have become largely redundant since the invent of mobile phones.

But when it came to music, it seems that the vinyl resurgence has helped the discs become a lot more recognisable among children – with only 26 percent of children unable to name a photo of a record on a record player.

In contrast, some 40 percent of kids were unable to recognise cassettes.

And with that, we’re off to dust off our walkmans.