Comment by Causality1

3.5mm floppies combined a lot of factors that appealed to me. They were cheap enough you could give one to someone without wanting it back, they were contained entirely within the computer so no danger of breaking it off if you leave it in there too long. Unlike CDs they were rewritable and unlike CDRWs they worked properly no matter what PC I was writing or reading from. Not to mention the thoroughly satisfying "chunk" sound when popped into a drive. Network file transfers will never have that "shove the data right into the computer, bam!" feeling.