3M, or as it was officially called until 2002, the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company is one of those odd-duck companies where if you ask what products they manufacture the answer is pretty ...

Floppy disks, if you’re older than 30, you likely remember these from school. In the days before CD-Rs, thumb drives, […] ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

Floppies were once the standard method of information exchange, but decades of storage can render them unreadable, especially if mold sets in. [Rob Smith] wanted to clean some floppies in style and ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

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 ...