Well, a USB memory stick is an SSD or, at least, is much much closer to an SSD than that technology mentioned in the article.
> In 1976 Dataram started selling a product called Bulk Core, which provided up to 2 MB of solid state storage compatible with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Data General (DG) computers.[16] In 1978, Texas Memory Systems introduced a 16 kilobyte RAM solid-state drive to be used by oil companies for seismic data acquisition.[17] The following year, StorageTek developed the first RAM solid-state drive.[18]