Floppy disks were the go-to format for transferring data from one device to another back in the '80s and '90s. Before CD drives, it's how you booted up "Doom." ...

From floppy disks to USBs, keeping important historical or personal data safe is a constant technological challenge. But scientists have found a new storage solution that could last for more than ...

Long before the era of iPhones and fast 5G internet, a young Mike Leseberg and his family moved to the Pacific Northwest with dreams of greener pastures. The Utah native was fed up working logistics.

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's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

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 ...

Invented back in 1971, the floppy disk is remembered as one of the most iconic and reliable disk storage solutions. Specifically, it was the 3.5-inch floppy that became a literal icon, one we still ...

What do floppy disks and the cancellation or delay of over a hundred flights at the Newark airport have in common? Well, in an age where we are talking about quantum computing and light-based data ...

I don't remember when I first started using a floppy disk in the mid-70s. It was either installing firmware on IBM S/370 mainframes or on a dedicated library workstation to create Library of Congress ...

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 ...

A dad turned floppy disks into a toddler TV remote, and somehow it works better than smart screens ...