If anyone wants to see a continuation of this subculture, have a look at this:
https://youtu.be/V_akDC1ztXQ?si=wxMOxlfvaN4IRSnw
and this:
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https://youtu.be/V_akDC1ztXQ?si=wxMOxlfvaN4IRSnw
and this:
I used to run a Jungle night, and once we booked Paradox to play. He brought his entire Amiga set up and we had to replace the decks with it for his set. He had to load each track from a floppy disk and it took like 2-3 mins whilst the beat of the previous track would play out and the crowd waited for the next track to load. Crazy seeing a whole dancefloor chilling waiting for a floppy disk to load up!
https://www.ami64.com/product-page/gotek-usb-flash-drive-for...
What's interesting is the firmware everyone uses, FlashFloppy[0].