[badsectoracula]

I think her student was messing with her, even young kids know what floppies are thanks to the "3d printed save button" meme :-P

I mean, think about it: many people who were born in the 80s and 90s know about phonographs despite them being long obsolete by that point, thanks to the references in cartoons, movies and other forms of media they consumed as children.

[monocasa]

I mean, you can still go to a record store, and due to the analog nature of the stored audio, and the fact that you have to rebuy albums to format shift for the vast majority of people, meant that vinyl records far outlived the time they were technically required. I listened to a vinyl album last week; when was the last time you saw, much less used, a floppy disk? Do you think it's crazy out there that large swathes gen z legitimately has never seen one?

[badsectoracula]

With phonograph i mean this [0], not any (modern) record player. It might be a language/region thing, but at least i understand "phonograph" (and "gramophone") to be the antique mechanical record players with the large metal horn.

[0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/VictorVP...

[monocasa]

I mean, that wiki page shows that electronic record players can still be referred to as a phonograph.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cb/Philco_T...