This Was IT Security In The 90s

This image is a screenshot of a Twitter conversation between two users joking about 1990s IT security. The first user Patrick shares a photo of a locked storage box for vintage 5.25-inch floppy disks, with the lock circled in orange, and jokes that this was IT security back in the 90s. A second user Chuck replies that while the physical lock may look silly now, the data stored on those floppies cannot be hacked remotely from halfway across the world, pointing out the unarguable benefit of physical air-gapped security compared to modern connected systems. The original Reddit post this was shared from also notes that the box can be misidentified as a Super Nintendo console at first glance.

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@Patrick Twitter/X

This was IT Security in the 90s. 😂

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Laugh all you want, but the info on those floppies can't be hacked from half a world away.

Overview

This image is a screenshot of a Twitter conversation between two users joking about 1990s IT security. The first user Patrick shares a photo of a locked storage box for vintage 5.25-inch floppy disks, with the lock circled in orange, and jokes that this was IT security back in the 90s. A second user Chuck replies that while the physical lock may look silly now, the data stored on those floppies cannot be hacked remotely from halfway across the world, pointing out the unarguable benefit of physical air-gapped security compared to modern connected systems. The original Reddit post this was shared from also notes that the box can be misidentified as a Super Nintendo console at first glance.

Origin notes

This meme originated as a conversation on Twitter/X, and was later reposted to Reddit, with the original Reddit post titled 'Thought this was a Super Nintendo' referencing the initial misidentification of the floppy storage box as a SNES console. It is a popular joke about retro technology and cybersecurity that has circulated widely across social media.