Just to address the 10/15/20 year comment, yeah I will stand by it. I don't think that people have much of a concept of what the world of computing was like before the hard drive was affordable. What loading a program off a floppy was like, or saving all of your data to floppy, or (later) what installing a program off a stack of floppies was like. It was a royal PITA. So when hard drives came around people pretty much dropped them, except when they had to. Which pretty much left floppies to installing programs and swapping data, then finally just swapping data. Even when it came to swapping data, things like Zip drives were used in many areas because floppies simply weren't large enough. (And later CDs, in spite of the pain of burning.)

Todays' retro users seem to treat them as some sort of novelty. Part of the experience. Well, I can tell you that most of the experience was leaving those floppies on the shelf unless you really needed to use them.