On July 4, a time capsule was buried in Philadelphia to mark the U.S.’s 250th anniversary. Among the items inside was a small metal vial that holds synthetic DNA encoded with major documents from the ...

If you’re an elder-millennial / Xennial like me, you probably remember the iconic “Don’t Copy That Floppy”Opens a new window ...

Check out this tiny OS that packs a full desktop experience into just 1.4MB.

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 ...

The 1990s weren’t that long ago, but they can feel like an entirely different civilization to people who grew up with ...

A glitch in Windows 11 causes a specific system file to keep growing in size, though a patch is available. Here's what you ...

The Washington Post revisited a 1976 feature predicting life in 2026, revealing how accurately it foresaw smartphones, solar ...

Nancy J. Allen never gave up on writing — even after losing a novel to a computer crash. Now at 80, her first book is out.

A graphic of a floppy disk hamburger was created on an early Amiga computer, photographed, and then deleted (more specifically, it couldn’t be saved). Stuart Brown set out to recreate this image as ...

A graphic of a floppy disk hamburger was created on an early Amiga computer, photographed, and then deleted (more specifically, it couldn’t be saved). Stuar ...

I once thought it was. But I was wrong. The thing is, I come from the era of tapes. For music. For TV shows. Even for computer games. You think it’s bad now when your console decides to download an ...