In Spring 2006 I had to give a PowerPoint presentation in class. The TA emailed the people presenting to say that the presentation had to be saved on a CD or flash drive to play from her computer. I had never heard of a flash drive before that I could remember, and the TA was from Thailand, so I thought she had gotten her vocabulary confused and meant a floppy disk. I was wrong.

Luckily, a girl in the class went with me to the computer lab to transfer my file onto her flash drive.