That little black thing on the right is what I was after when I started opening the package. It took a bit of work, but I was eventually rewarded. When I look at its tiny size and its 8 GB of storage I think back to my first flash drive in 2004 with its amazing 56k of storage space. Good times.
It is funny to think about that sort of progress. And yet, has the amount of packaging progressed? I think sometimes its more about theft prevention than anything else. Remember the tall CD boxes. Ha ha! They we the fodder of such consternation. Why did the industry think we needed that?
"The day the Record Exchange closed so they could get rid of all the long box CD cases." I've filed that story away for my nonexistent grandchildren. There was such a brouhaha. O! The Waste!
It's totally about theft prevention.