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, ...

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage.

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a ...

Japan’s Digital Minister, Taro Kono, is celebrating the demise of the floppy disk. 'We have won the war on floppy disks on June 28,' Kono told Reuters news agency earlier today.

The Pentagon still uses gargantuan 8-inch floppy disks to help operate the nation’s nuclear weapons.

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.

Strudelsoft is the label that Sterling Campbell bills as first vaporwave imprint dedicated exclusively to releasing music on 3.5" floppy disk.

As the machines that read floppy disks have become obsolete, it’s become difficult for most people to access these artifacts. Instead, they search for “floppy disk” on the Internet.

Yahoo Finance Live's Akiko Fujita and Brian Cheung discuss Japan's digitization push. AKIKO FUJITA: Do you know what a floppy disk is, is the question we ask. BRIAN CHEUNG: A lot of our viewers ...

The gist of the story is that the floppy disk’s surface could still be scanned with help from the aptly named Applesauce Floppy Drive Controller, which got the following visualization of the ...

The floppy disk on the Saviour Schnapps potion is just another Easter egg that has brought some laughs to players. Kingdom come: deliverance 2 celebration.

While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure x86 assembly and as a result small and lightweight enough to run off a standard 1.44 MB floppy disk, as demonstra… ...