GoKawiilIomega's 1990s Zip Drive Offered 100MB Portable Storage Before USB
Iomega, founded in 1980 by former IBM engineers, built on its earlier Bernoulli Box technology to create the Zip drive, a 3.5-inch removable disk system that stored 100MB of data. It arrived at a time when standard floppy disks held just 1.44MB and most households lacked affordable high-speed internet or flash storage options.