or somehow rolled his own mini-disc, [Dino Fizzotti]’s Diskplayer uses floppies to serve up Spotify albums. What’s actually on the floppy, then? The corresponding Spotify album URL.

My business, which used to be 90% CD and DVD duplication, is now 90% selling blank floppy disks. It’s shocking to me. — Tom Persky In the course of writing a book all about yours-truly’s ...

In 2022, Japan's digital minister "declared war" on floppy disks and other retro tech like CDs and mini-discs, after a committee discovered nearly 2,000 areas in which businesses were still ...

The 8-inch floppy disk was eventually succeeded by the 5.25 ... but by then rewritable CDs had been adopted more widely. Before USB flash drives proved to be the most popular rewritable storage ...

America’s air traffic control systems are outdated, understaffed, and underfunded, risking more deadly plane accidents in the ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its ...

While data used to be stored on floppy disks, they were later replaced by CD-ROMs and now live on as the save icon for most software. They became increasingly smaller since their appearance in the ...

FOR anyone over the age of 40 and familiar with computers, floppy disks were a fact of life until what feels like relatively recently. For those younger than 40, a floppy disk was the ...

Requiring a code that you’ll either have to steal from someone leaving or find through internet sleuthing, once you gain entrance to this bar you’ll find nary a floppy disk. Instead ...