As we all look across a sea of lifeless, nearly identically-styled consumer goods, a few of us have become nostalgic for a time when products like stereo equipment, phones, appliances, homes, cars, ...

One of the world’s most technologically advanced nations has held on to some of the most outmoded devices. By John Yoon Hisako Ueno and Kiuko Notoya Hisako Ueno has used floppy disks extensively.

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 ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...

If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even realising it. That tiny icon—a blue disk with a silver shutter—was once an ...

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 ...

As technology marches on at an unprecedented pace, many devices and standards have fallen by the wayside, replaced by faster, sleeker, and more efficient alternatives. Not all outdated technologies ...

Tom Persky, owner of FloppyDisk.com and disk trader, shows off a 3.5-inch computer disk at his warehouse in Lake Forest. REUTERS/Alan Devall It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk ...