The ancient storage tech your modern Windows PC can't live without ...

Copy your floppies before bit rot gets them.

My decades-old floppy disks defied harsh attic conditions, raising questions about media durability, bit rot and long-term storage assumptions.

In the early 1990s, Don’t Copy That Floppy was an anti-piracy campaign that attempted to connect with computer-savvy youth ...

If you're a member of Gen A, there's a good chance you've never seen anything called a "floppy disk." If you're Gen Z or older, you've almost certainly handled floppies (and you may even be collecting ...

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The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing schoolwork in a 90s computer lab, and, as it turns out, even some of today's ...

Back in the day, when Windows 98 reigned supreme, we actually thought beige plastic was the right kind of material for all our PCs. And judging by my smudged-up black aluminum laptops, maybe we were ...

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 ...