ZIPS WERE UP AND THEN CAME DOWN

In late 1994, lomega introduced the Zip drive. This was intended to replace the 3.5 inch floppy disc as the Zip disk would store about 100 Megabytes of memory. For a short time, this floppy became huge. However, it was soon out seeded by devices that could hold more memory, such as the rewritable CD, the rewritable DVD, and USB Flashdrives.