It was great because none of them secured their protocols.

Everyone on Linux just used Pidgin and you had all your contacts and chats on every service all in one client.

As everyone else said, they’re floppy disks with the plastic case removed.

Since you found them in a church, could they have belonged to a church bell system? I’ve seen other church bell systems in the past where the songs came on weird mediums.

This is just a random guess, I don’t know why anyone would remove the casing.

The X in DirectX is a placeholder, because it’s a suite of APIs.

DirectShow, DirectSound, DirectMusic, Direct3D, ect.

Its like “Direct____”