I remember using pkzip's spanning feature to transport MP3 files home from school with a few floppies. I certainly would have preferred using something more like laplink in that case.

There was a very weird period of time there where floppy drives stopped advancing in capacity but the average file size had continued to outgrown them for years. I remember the iomega zip disks, despite their faults, actually showing up in a lot computer labs before flash drives finally buried them.