The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing schoolwork in a 90s computer lab, and, as it turns out, even some of today's ...

During his Republican National Convention speech Thursday night, Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel told the crowd that when he was growing up in America in the 60s, “the ...

Are you old enough to remember using floppy disks? Do they fill you with nostalgia? But I bet that nine times out of ten, you think of them as something to be used with a PC. After all, that's where ...

The Pentagon logo and an American flag are lit up in the briefing room of Pentagon in Arlington, VA, Jan. 3, 2002. Alex Wong/Getty Images The Pentagon’s Strategic Automated Command and Control System, ...

Those of us who've been around and using technology for a while remember the era of floppy disks. You know, they look like "save" icons, but they were real pieces of plastic with magnetic media inside ...

Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal ...

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline... Some industries still use floppy disks. This is one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gen Zers try to make sense of the floppy disk. As technology continues to advance at an exponential rate, it can be tough to keep ...

A new program at the University of Cambridge library in the UK is asking people to bring in their floppy disks so that any digital artifacts on them can be extracted. Among rediscovered files are ...

If you're a member of Gen A, there's a good chance you've never seen anything called a "floppy disk." If you're Gen Z or older, you've almost certainly handled floppies (and you may even be collecting ...

Two pilots managing software in an airplane cockpit - Rathke/Getty Images The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...