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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

COPS have lost potentially key files in the Tupac Shakur murder probe which could impact the upcoming trial into the rap icon ...

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 ...