Iron oxide on the surface of the plastic may corrode material away, or it may lose its magnetism, preventing it from begin ...

From lectures by Stephen Hawking to the letters of British politician Neil Kinnock – it's a race against time to save the ...

On October 9, Cambridge University Library opened its doors to anyone with an old floppy disk and a question: What’s on here?

Windows 11 supports the old-school internet connection technology that everyone who had a computer in the 1990s will remember ...

“I gotta lot of private data on these old disks, I better get rid of them to make sure no one sees what I do on my computer,” the YouTuber says at the start of his video. With labels such as “furry ...

Q: I'm a doctor who was a medical missionary in Madagascar for 40 years, and the time has come for me to write my memoirs. But to do that I need access to my old e-mails and correspondence that were ...

Floppy disks may seem anachronistic to most people, but in the underground electronic music scene, they've remained quite ...

ANSWER: Here is a link that offers four different ways. I'd use the one that shows you how to remove the inner disc and cut it with scissors. But any of the four ways would work, including burning ...

EarthBound's combination of JRPG and weird elements make it stand out in the Super Nintendo era of gaming. Whether it was the journey Ness and the party took to save the world, or the odd-looking ...

No matter what the size—eight-inch, 5 1/4-inch, 3 1/2-inch—floppy disks are the most iconic symbols of old-school computing. But how do they actually work? The 8-Bit Guy spends 15 minutes breaking ...

The International Space Station is set to shortly celebrate its 20th Birthday. Yes, incredibly, it has been 20 years now since the station opened and in terms of human achievements, it’s certainly up ...