Ahh, floppy disks. Few things carry nostalgia quite like a floppy — either 3 1⁄2 or 5 1⁄4, depending on which generation of hacker you happen to be. (And yes, we hear you grey-beards, 8-inch … ...

Old iterations of the floppy disk meme are not hard to find. The oldest instance I’ve been able to dig up, circa a forum post in January 2014, comes from an unidentified web comic.

Time is almost up for magnetic storage from the 80s and 90s. Various physical limitations in storage methods from this era are conspiring to slowly degrade the data stored on things like tape, flop… ...

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming.

Perhaps floppy disks are "perfect reminders of how violently smashing bytes together on a thin, vulnerable plastic/magnet sandwich is still one of the most punk things you can do as a musician", ...

There's something uniquely satisfying about the CLICK of putting a 3.5-inch floppy disk in the drive, and it's a shame you don't get to enjoy it anymore. That is, unless you are Dr. Moddnstine and ...

BRIAN CHEUNG: So I saw a meme online that was like, oh, man, they really 3D printed the save logo. It was a Gen Z-er that was, like, looking at a floppy disk. AKIKO FUJITA: Oh.

British Airways recently retired its fleet of 747s, giving us a chance to see how its floppy-based software update system works. It's a real blast from the past.

For those unfamiliar, a floppy disk drive is a now antiquated device that read a flexible magnetic data storage disk, causing a grinding and humming sound familiar to early computer users.