dec 29, 1999 - The Flash drive was made these drives consisted of flash memory encased in a small form factor container with a USB interface They could be used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files between various devices. They were faster and had greater data capacity than earlier storage media Also they could not be scratched like optical discs and were resilient to magnetic erasure unlike floppy disks
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dec 29, 1999
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~ 25 years ago