I know you're desperately wondering about the floppy drives in this Maingear Retro98 desktop. Back in the day, when Windows ...

[Maurizio] loves using his Amiga 500. His classic piece of hardware has been serving him well for years, except for the floppy drive, which recently gave out on him. No problem for [Maurizio], he just ...

Many dog breeds have a signature look: Some have beards and mustaches, others prove wrinkles are stylish, while some breeds double as fluffy white clouds and a few even have floppy ears. Yet, dog ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming. Tom Persky runs floppydisk.com, a ...

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

Just insert a disk and the TV starts playing three-year-old’s favorite shows Smart TV UIs are hard enough for adults to navigate, let alone preschoolers. When his three-year-old couldn't learn to ...

It was 1998 and Apple had just released the iMac G3. It was a beautiful interesting computer: a sleek, all-in-one case, with something new called USB. One thing it didn't have was a floppy disk. At ...

Exploring the possibilities of ultracompressed and low-bitrate audio, the floppy disc music scene is alive. "Linked to strong punk movements with a DIY aesthetic," it is an anti-capitalist niche ...

The Japanese government is just starting to phase out the floppy disks, the Nikkei reported. Sony, the last major floppy-disk maker, stopped production of the storage media a decade ago. The Japanese ...

Famously, the save icon on most computer user interfaces references a fairly obsolete piece of technology: the venerable ...

Floppy disks may seem like a relic from an ancient time of computers but there are still places and even governments in the world that still use them to run its most basic functions. Japan is no ...