If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many ...

Three rows down and four columns over on the iPhone emoji “Objects & Symbols” page is a small black square. It’s to the right of a pager and directly under a CD, perhaps giving more insight into the ...

Gen Z may not realize it, but there was once a time when personal computer users relied heavily on floppy disk storage for everything from data retention to gaming. The world has moved on to solid ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Texas A&M University students digitize NASA scientist John Charles' papers into an aerospace medicine library that's already ...

This is one of those “I remember it just like it was yesterday” stories. I’m sitting there with my first personal computer, a fledgling IBM PC with two 360-kilobyte disk drives and 64K of memory, and ...

The International Space Station is apparently in need of a garage sale. European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst, currently in residence up in, well, space, discovered a treasure trove of ...

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 ...

The iconic floppy disk is reborn as a storage case for today's terabyte-packing SD cards From 1.44MB past to terabyte present, the new design bridges eras creatively Fun artwork references glitch ...

Editor’s Note: This article previously appeared in a different format as part of The Atlantic’s Notes section, retired in 2021. In August 1991, Astronauts Shannon Lucid and James C. Adamson sent the ...