Week 7

Flash drives were an innovation for their time, as they could be kept in your pocket and carry any sort of information on them. However, the issue connected with them was related to their super secret information that could be hidden could have also been to blame for their uprising. Having a small device that could stealthily conceal and carry information during the 90s was extremely useful.Though how did the device catch on? How did it get so popular? Well during its deployment in the market, the Flash drive was commonly used for its additional storage. This would help users have more megabites of information, FAR more as before all they had was a floppy disk that could only hold a very miniscule amount of data. less than 2 megabytes. As such the flash drive rose in popularity. My assumption why it may have declined is probably because of the invention of the cloud. The cloud is where information is stored on the web, instead of carrying the information around, you put it into a shared storage place you can access it from anywhere you'd access the internet. Now the Flash Drive wasn't entirely forgotten, but now it's associated with some illegal things as people can use the flash drive without notifying authorities or setting off a alarms.

 My assumption why it may have declined is probably because of the invention of the cloud. The cloud is where information is stored on the web, instead of carrying the information around, you put it into a shared storage place you can access it from anywhere you'd access the internet. Now the Flash Drive wasn't entirely forgotten, but now it's associated with some illegal things as people can use the flash drive without notifying authorities or setting off a alarms.

Document of the flash drive vs. cloud
https://smallbusiness.chron.com/cloud-computing-vs-flash-drive-79074.html#:~:text=Cloud%20storage%20services%20require%20an,ranging%20from%204GB%20to%20256GB.