Timeline of Obsolete stuff By JoeMama 1947 R.A.M invented (Random Access Memory) 1967 Floppy Disk invented by Alan Shugart 1968 Modern R.A.M is invented 1976 Floppy disk size decreased to 5.25 inches from 8 1981 The floppy disk used in the first IBM personal computer 1981 Osborne made the first portable computer which had 64kb of R.A.M 1990 Floppy disk size decreased to 3.5 inches 2000 Usb flash drives invented 2000 First flash drive can hold 8mb 2009 Production of floppy disks stopped 2009 The computer I made this with has up to 4 GB of R.A.M 2019 Flash drives can hold 1000000mb (1tb) 2019 R.A.M is now up to 8 GB in one stick