You might think that storage is expensive and scarce today, but kids these days have no idea what it is like to scrounge every kilobyte you can. Which is why a floppy disk hack from the early '90s ...

Gen Zers attempt to use older technology. In some cases, they’re just learning what a “floppy disk” is and how it works.

The Japanese government is finally doing away with 3.5-inch floppy disks, almost two years after it announced its intention to scrap them. “We have won the war on floppy disks,” Taro Kono, Japan’s ...

Floppy disks are several decades old—many of the disks are degrading and the data stored on them is at risk of being lost. In response, Leontien Talboom, a technical analyst at Cambridge University ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. STORY: (Tim Persky, Floppy disk seller) "If you think this is old, take a look at this. This is a floppy disk from the 1970s." ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

When Mark Necaise got down to his last four floppy disks at a rodeo in Mississippi in February, he started to worry. Necaise travels to horse shows around the state, offering custom embroidery on ...

The Muni Metro Automatic Train Control System (ATCS) is set to get an upgrade to its operations that will put it approximately five generations ahead of its current system, which now runs on 5.25-inch ...

What? Japan had to declare war on floppy disks? The country’s digital minister, Taro Kono, publicly stated this on Twitter. According to the minister, the Japanese government has too many businesses ...

Ssshik, whirrr… A:IT_Blogwatch.txt, in which we predict the death of the humble floppy disk (film at 11). Not to mention how to make a model from a dead floppy… Aunty Beeb has the scoop: The time has ...