Before smartphones fit in our pockets and the cloud stored everything, there was the clunky, glorious world of ’80s tech. Today’s post is a nostalgic trip back to the era of giant monitors, cassette ...

We’ll never know what kind of art Andy Warhol might have been making in the Internet age, but now we can at least see what was on his floppy disks from 1985. A series of Warhol images from the ’80s ...

You can find a million old, oddball things you never expected to be preserved on the Internet Archive, and along the way stumble upon a million more you never knew existed. At present, I'm smitten ...

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, floppy ...

Invented by Alan Shugart at IBM in 1967, the original floppy disk design measured 8 inches (200mm) in diameter, stored 80KB of data and became available for purchase in 1971 as a part of IBM's ...