# Why Zip drives dominated the 90s, then vanished almost overnight

<https://www.xda-developers.com/zip-drives-dominated-90s-vanished-almost-overnight/>

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## What Jamie wrote

This brought me back! I remember being so excited when I got my Zip drive back in the day. It seemed so fast and could hold so much!

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## Appears in

- [WT345: Weekly Thing 345 / Codex, Headless, Wikiwise](https://weekly.thingelstad.com/archive/345/), Briefly

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