cheap CD-Rs CD-RWs and USB flash drives killed off the zip drive
Yes once they both got very affordable.
“cheap CD-Rs CD-RWs and USB flash drives killed off the zip drive”
I know, I saw all of that happen. I think USB flash drives were the final nail in the coffin. Zip drives were a great example of technology that was everywhere and pretty well entrenched, and then it gets quickly abandoned when newer technology came on the market. Not that that is unusual.