Is this really even a popular belief anymore? Akihabara hasn't been known for cutting-edge electronics for a while. And just a couple years ago some people's personal info was revealed due to a lost floppy disk.
Because of population density, social and technological trends would often show up there before trickling down to other places, but social media has reduced the effect of that since new ideas and lifehacks go viral and can be everywhere at once. At least IMO that contributed more to the belief than specific technologies did. (On the contrary Japan has always been stagnant in certain technological areas because of the Galapagos effect.)
And some people still use dot-matrix printers, because they're the only ones that can print on carbon-copy paper. That's the ones with the white, yellow, pink, etc. sheets all in one.
Is this really even a popular belief anymore? Akihabara hasn't been known for cutting-edge electronics for a while. And just a couple years ago some people's personal info was revealed due to a lost floppy disk.
Because of population density, social and technological trends would often show up there before trickling down to other places, but social media has reduced the effect of that since new ideas and lifehacks go viral and can be everywhere at once. At least IMO that contributed more to the belief than specific technologies did. (On the contrary Japan has always been stagnant in certain technological areas because of the Galapagos effect.)
the floppy disk is less because they cant change that and more because they dont want to lol. Some companies still use fax machines ffs
if it ain't broke don't fix it
And some people still use dot-matrix printers, because they're the only ones that can print on carbon-copy paper. That's the ones with the white, yellow, pink, etc. sheets all in one.