Once upon a time, in a land that existed without the internet, people got their media from hardware. They stored information on obsolete contraptions like VHS tapes, cassettes, CDs and DVDs and of course, flat little squares of plastic and metal known as floppy disks. People used these objects by the billions. In 1998, over 2 billion floppy disks were purchased in the U.K. alone. But when the new age of cloud computing and Web 2.0 arrived, the floppy disk, along with most other hardware contraptions, went the …