>>I saw 8" floppy at university but never used. I just saw it on a wall hanged like an antique.
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>There's a legend I heard in the nineties, which probably happened a decade before.
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>The military command of a seaside garrison had some data to send to general HQ. The programmer offered to simply upload it via modem - heck, the military has its own wires and links, should be safe. But no, the protocol for this level demands a courier, and the speed of ASAP. Which meant he had to dump the file to a 8" floppy, put it in an envelope (fits somewhat loosely into an A4 sidewise, but lengthwise there's a lot of space). Then he submitted it to their post office next door, with appropriate amount of STROGO POV (not a russian last name, it's STRICTLY CONF) stamps, wax seals, accompanying paper trail etc. Then a terrain vehicle came to take the courier to the air base, where he got into a helicopter, which flew him across the country, to the other airbase, where another vehicle was waiting. Within a total of 2-3 hours he delivered the envelope to the programmers at GHQ. The receiving programmer just took a look at the envelope, slapped his forehead and managed to suppress laughter for about six seconds.
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>The envelope was stapled through in several places. The postal clerk (a senior sergeant of sorts) saw that there's something loose in the envelope, so he secured it.
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>The urgency then won over security, and the data were transmitted via modem during the next five minutes.

This's not a legend:

I saw my friend with a bag of floppy disks (These years floppy disks were expensive at my country), I asked him, he said that: "An education minister officer gave these virus infected disks to me (probably brain), said me throw these away with safetly. He think computer viruses like real viruses and scaries from infection... :)" My friend formatted and used these disks after.