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Label in sharpie as "Bitcoin password" and superglue to the sidewalk in a busy area. Watch people try to pick up.
This is 98% the right answer, but you drop them somewhere that keeps them intact, and believable enough so that people take them, and spend the rest of the weekend going to thrift stores trying to find an external floppy drive, and the next month trying to figure out how to get their iPhone to mount it.
Dude. RAID.
Carry one in your pocket so you can whip it out in a threatening gesture... like in the film hackers
Pirate Windows 95
Floppy disks are a way to install linux on your microwave try a distro like arch linux it's microwave safe
Whatever you do, as soon as you crack it open get your nose right up there and inhale deeply.
Load virus on to banking system to embezzle fraction of cents on each financial operation.
Sell them as 3D printed save icons.
Start a porn collection of high quality pictures. Be sure to zip span them across all disks⦠all 1 photo
Click on them to save your files.
Just carry one around with you and whenever something important happens or you are about to do something risky, pull it out, press it with your finger and loudly say "Save".
Edit: Bonus points for carrying a huge cardboard mouse pointer to click with.
Edit 2: I really should read all the replies before starting to type.
Combine them into a blazing fast 14.4 MB RAID 0.
Get a few suitcases at Goodwill or something, stick a floppy and some 'redacted' papers in a red envelope, leave them in random places around town and observe what happens. Make sure to wear a trench coat and sunglasses when you 'forget' them at each drop point.
Put all your precious documents on the disks and then rub a magnet on each one of them to make sure they are properly energized. The stronger the magnet the better.
Write your own copy of Windows 10, minus the bloat. You'll probably have 2 floppies left
With those in hand, start waving them around maniacally and shout "WHY IS IT CALLED A FLOPPY IF IT'S SO DAMN HARD!?"
Hand them to zoomers as 3d printed save buttons
Download a car
Label one βImportant Documentsβ and then attach it to your refrigerator door using a fridge magnet
Thank them for the retro-themed coaster set
"Omg, you 3D-printed a save icon!"