Your birth year
2006
USB Flash Drive
20002000s
USB Flash Drive is 6 years older than you
It's from 2000, before you were born.
- Type
- Portable data storage
- Debuted
- 2000
- Capacity
- First ones held a whopping 8 MB
- Note
- Killed the floppy disk
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About
As of 2026, it's 26 years old.
The USB flash drive showed up around 2000 as a keychain-sized lump that held more than dozens of floppy disks combined, and the floppy never recovered. Early models stored a glorious 8 megabytes, which felt like infinite space until your photos started having more than three colors.
It also introduced the universe's most reliable law of physics: the USB plug will always be upside down on the first try, correct on the second, and somehow upside down again on the third.
The USB flash drive is the tiny stick that quietly murdered the floppy disk and then lived in everyone's junk drawer ever after.
