I recently recommended that a customer use an external hard drive as a backup device when they remarked, “You know, I don’t think I really know what a hard drive ...

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

The FAA will no longer use Windows 95 for air traffic control. Floppy disks, another tech relic, will also be canned—something that should have happened a long time ago, one would think.

Floppy disks still fly—literally. Here’s why some airplanes in 2025 still rely on 1990s tech for navigation updates.

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A portrait of Indianapolis humor icon David Letterman made of floppy disks will be displayed in downtown InterContinental hotel, opening this winter.

The time has come to bid farewell to one of the PC's more stalwart friends - the floppy disk. Computing superstore PC World said it will no longer sell the storage devices, affectionately known as ...

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Although you probably haven't used (or even seen) a floppy disk in a while, some systems still rely on the outdated technology to this day.

Farewell to Floppy disk: Japan pulls the plug on a tech relic unknown to Gen-Z Floppy disks were used in the Japanese government system, and now it is officially getting off the shelf.

Japan's government has only just stopped using floppy disks Decades after their heyday, Japan's Digital Agency says it's now "won the war on floppy disks," and finally moved its systems online.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.