@Alex I agree because you might as well call SSDs "flash drives".

Also it turns out that "jump drive" is trademarked by Lexar which is why the term is rarely used these days.

@Alex @xianc78

100mb zip disquettes were worth their weight in gold when the hdd was 90mb and that was considered pretty beefy at the time. My brother played tie fighter, but I played x-wing, and only one fit at a time so we had to uninstall/ reinstall every time we switched who was playing 🙃

@bonkmaykr Apparently, the different names stem from the fact that many different companies, all of the sudden, came with the idea of having removable flash storage that is accessed by USB and they all had different names for it, some of them being trademark. "Flash Drive" somehow ended up being the dominant name even though the term could technically be used for any flash-memory-based storage.

"Thumb drive" seemed to be the dominant generic name in my circles.

@nicholas @bonkmaykr @xianc78 I say either flash drive or USB stick. I always thought that jump drive and thumb drive were things old people said lol

@beardalaxy@gameliberty.club @nicholas@aklp.club @xianc78@gameliberty.club I'll call it anything but jump drive. I prefer to say Thumb because using the term "flash drive" to refer only to small USB sticks is kinda dumb lol. "flash stick" sounds better but nobody wants to say that

"Flash stick" sounds better? 🤔 For me that phrase instantly calls to mind what creeps on the subway like to show unsuspecting riders.

@nicholas @bonkmaykr @xianc78 makes me think of fish sticks heheheh

@beardalaxy@gameliberty.club @nicholas@aklp.club @xianc78@gameliberty.club I was thinking that too 😭 could go for some fish sticks right about now