A few years ago, small indie labels starting making their new releases available on cassette tape. In the age of digital downloads and streaming services, the chance to buy a physical, playable object ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The 3.5-inch floppy disk’s long, slow, unceremonious march ...

Cool find! The combination of DVD and floppy disks initially seems bizarre, but if the system was introduced in 1998 it kind of makes sense. DVD had been out for about 2 years at that point, but there ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

Near the turn of the millenium, portable media players like the iPod led to the development of the podcast. The format generally consists of content similar to talk-based radio, and is typically ...

TikTok user showbizpizzaman documented the process of uploading data to the computers that control Chuck E. Cheese's anthropomorphic robot animals. Reading time 2 minutes Two of the greatest memories ...

What, wait? Sony’s been churning out floppy disks all these years? And 12m were sold last year in Japan alone? I guess that’s not enough though—as Sony Japan will cease selling them March 2011.