These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

A few years ago, small indie labels starting making their new releases available on cassette tape. In the age of digital downloads and streaming services, the chance to buy a physical, playable object ...

Way back in ancient times, i.e. the '70s and '80s, the floppy disk was a major player in the world of digital storage. And you might be surprised to learn just how prominent the format still is in ...

I don't need to do a whole background on the history of floppy disks - everyone on here probably knows about them, probably a lot more than I do -- (The TL;DR, these were a staple of computing, for ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...

Overall, the experience reinforced that floppy disks aren’t interchangeable carriers; they are unique artifacts with their ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The 3.5-inch floppy disk’s long, slow, unceremonious march ...

PCs used two types of floppy disks. The first was the 5.25" floppy (diskette), which became ubiquitous in the 1980s. It was superseded by the 3.5" floppy in the mid-1990s. Very bendable in its plastic ...

Cool find! The combination of DVD and floppy disks initially seems bizarre, but if the system was introduced in 1998 it kind of makes sense. DVD had been out for about 2 years at that point, but there ...

What just happened? It's been close to 15 years since Sony made the very last new floppy disk, many years after the height of their popularity, but it's only now that Japan has finally managed to ...

We remember the format wars in the vein of "Two men enter; one man leaves." Think VHS vs. Betamax, or HD-DVD vs. Blu-ray. But in the cracks in between, some media formats came and went with hardly any ...