A business owner who says he's "the last man" still selling floppy disc - the bygone computer technology that was thought to have gone the way of the 8-track - says that airlines are among his biggest ...

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives.

"The sound of a computer's floppy disk drive will be as closely associated with 20th Century computing as the sound of a computer dialling into the internet," said Mr Magrath. But with computer users ...

A disk shows up as the save icon in many computer apps most of us use every day. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "DON'T COPY THAT FLOPPY") ME HART: (Rapping) We protect it by law.

Since then, these images have been stored on floppy disks and hidden from public view. Now, for the first time, NFTs (short for non-fungible tokens) of these works will be sold at an upcoming ...

The original 8-inch floppy disks had a storage capacity of about 80 kilobytes. However, as the technology progressed, they eventually managed to store up to 1.2 megabytes by the end of their reign.

Floppy disks were eventually made obsolete by compact discs, USBs and flash drives, as a smaller and more portable way to share files from computer to computer, with more storage capacity too.

According to Tom’s Hardware, the Navy is only now nearing replacement solutions for the floppy disks that help manage its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates (warships) that monitor submarine activity.

They may have barely enough capacity to store a modern smart phone picture, but some people still love using this technology from the 1980s.

With the dawn of the 21st Century, however, for most computer users, floppy disks were on their way out – increasingly supplanted by writeable CDs and thumb drives. And now, cloud storage is ...