In late 1981, Sony surprised the photographic world with the first electronic still camera – the Mavica. The Mavica (which stood for Magnetic Video Camera) was not a digital camera, but an analog one, ...

From iconic dial-up modems to VHS tapes, there are many items that Baby Boomers used daily but have completely vanished.

The North American bison bring a touch of the Old West to your African safari experience. These massive animals are icons of ...

It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

You now have to back up your USB drive before you try to recover anything. You can do this in Disk Drill. Go to Extra Tools, ...

From dial-up modems to cassette tapes, explore the nostalgic items that shaped a generation but have now vanished from ...

Back in the day, when Windows 98 reigned supreme, we actually thought beige plastic was the right kind of material for all our PCs. And judging by my smudged-up black aluminum laptops, maybe we were ...

Not too long ago, part of using a computer was often finding the correct disk for the application you wanted to run and inserting it into your machine before you could start. With modern storage, this ...

A prisoner at New Jersey State Prison has publically voiced frustration at being forced to rely on floppy disks for critical legal work. The US state's prison system restricts inmates to using floppy ...

Basset hounds and beagles are only just the beginning when it comes to lovable dogs with floppy ears Do your ears hang low? That’s probably not an issue for you, but it’s certainly the case for these ...

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 ...