The floppy disk from the 80's couldnt be exposed to sunlight or really even touched. The 3.5 floppy was too bulky to carry around even with the silver protective slide was easily bent. People though the flash drive was cool, stylish and portable til you lost it, then lost another one and another and another one. The SD card didnt make it any better due to more up to date laptops dont support them. Now everyone has a cell phone which they can search save and download pretty much anything (as long as they have a signal)
The easier it is to research and learn, the less I feel people will retain.