Today, most people under 25 have never used a floppy disk, yet they instinctively recognise the save icon. This phenomenon is ...

If the floppy disk is just a save icon to you there’s still the chance to experience their retro charm though, courtesy of [Franklinstein]. He’s made a 3.5″ floppy disk that eschews 720 k ...

The floppy disk is a technology that is known only to the youth of today as the inspiration for the Save icon. There’s a lot of retro computing history tied up in these fragile platters ...

which was then overtaken by the 3.5-inch floppy disk in the 1980s and 1990s. The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before ...