Most of us may have gratefully abandoned the floppy disk a decade or more since, but even today many PCs and their operating systems retain the ability to deal with these data storage relics. The PC ...

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological advances elsewhere.

Since late January, TidBITS Talkers have been reminiscing about floppy disks and other storage media of yesteryear. It has been a lovely conversation, with links to articles about groups just now ...

In this engaging #shorts video, we explore the intriguing story behind the classic floppy disk and its potential for revival.

This month the International Space Station turned 20, and as a fitting mark of this anniversary, a European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst has stumbled across a reminder of that long history ...

Think back. Wayyy back. Remember floppy disks? If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a box of them in a closet, serving absolutely no practical use. (When was the last time you owned, or even used, a ...

You thought the floppy disk was long dead. You thought that, in today’s cloud-centric age—a time in which even miulti-gigabyte flash drives are ridiculously ...