One piece of '90s tech that has seemingly been forgotten and never returned, though, is the floppy disk. Although it still holds on as the standard icon for the "Save" function in computers and apps, ...

Now that floppy disks are entirely a thing of the past, with CDs quickly going the same way, people are constantly coming up with creative and innovative uses for all those floppy disks lying around.

It may seem incredible, but the giant Boeing 747 is still using the old-fashioned floppy disk to update its software. And it's unlikely to change. Here's why.

An online merchant who runs one of the few remaining websites where you can buy floppy disks says they're still used in the medical and airline industries. Search Query Show Search.

Hoffman's song for DiskFight starts slow and builds to match the rising intensity of the game. The tune in question, called Disk Menace, is an Amiga-generated drum and bass song that does get quite ...

GERMANY (WKRC) - Although you probably haven't used (or even seen) a floppy disk in a while, some systems still rely on the outdated technology to this day.

The disks were first used in the 1970s. The bizarre technological gap was reported by the New York Times , which wrote: “The Federal Register would not say which agencies still used floppy disks.

In 2018, floppy disk sales actually went up when small indie music labels turned to the 3.5-inch floppy at the height of the vaporwave trend. But getting back to planes, modern isn’t always better.

Remember floppy disks? I, for one, have not forgotten them. That’s probably because I have about 50 collecting dust in an old box that hails from the ’90s. Randy Sarafan, author of a new book ...

Mac software used to be distributed on 3.5-inch floppy disks. Now, using the MacDisk utility, you can read them on modern Windows computers. When the Macintosh was first released in 1984, it didn ...

Digital Minister declares a war on floppy discs. There are about 1900 government procedures that requires business community to use discs, i. e. floppy disc, CD, MD, etc to submit applications and ...