Tech quiz of the day from WhatIs.com: How much do you know about virtual floppies?

The WhatIs.com Word of the Day is virtual floppy disk.

Tech Trivia
3.5-inch diskettes are rigid. So why are they called “floppies?”
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Secret Word of the Day
Although opinions differ, according to Eric S. Raymond in The New Hacker’s Dictionary, one of these is always 1,048,576 bytes.
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Acronym Challenge
CO is a technique for getting more data on a storage medium by analyzing the data for unique repetitive patterns that are then stored as shorter symbols. What does CO stand for?
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