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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries. When I was little, it was rare for people to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As the creator ItsDanik explains: "RFIDisk turns RFID tags into physical shortcuts that launch games, apps, or scripts when ...

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...