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 ...

Like a lot of people who’ve worked in tech for a long time, I’ve accumulated a lot of products over the years. I’m not very good at throwing things away - because you never know when you’ll need them!

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 ...

When you think of Tokyo, you might think of neon-lit skyscrapers and its world-famous bullet train system, or films like “Akira” and “Ghost in the Shell” that depict a futuristic Japan filled with ...

A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

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- Air traffic control still relies on outdated tech like Windows 95 and floppy disks, meaning your flight is tracked using systems older than Google. "Pandora's box": Russia issues new warning to ...

"This is your pilot speaking. Just one moment, my traffic controller needs to swap out their floppy disk… there we go." Those are disquieting words you probably don't want to hear, for nobody wants to ...

Ancient technologies like Windows XP, Commodore 64, and legacy COBOL programs are still being used for all kinds of critical functions, and here’s another example to add to the list. The US Federal ...