There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

If you're a member of Gen A, there's a good chance you've never seen anything called a "floppy disk." If you're Gen Z or older, you've almost certainly handled floppies (and you may even be collecting ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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." ...

The company on Tuesday began offering the USB Memory Key, a small, removable storage device. Dell will offer a 16MB version of the USB Memory Key in place of a floppy drive for customers who opt to ...

A photographer cut open a floppy disk to use the plastic inside as an infrared filter on his Sony a7 II mirrorless camera. Mathieu Stern had trouble actually finding a floppy disk, an obsolete data ...

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 version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, a twice-weekly newsletter that hunts for the end of the long tail. As proprietary, non-standardized formats go, Iomega’s Zip drive got a heck of a ...

Everything old is new again, eventually. Music from the 1990s. Fashion from the 1980s. Facial hair from the 1970s. And now floppy disks, an important storage medium from the closing decades of the ...