In the 1990s, floppy disks were the medium of choice for home and business users alike to copy and store important data. Floppy disk use declined in the late 1990s thanks to the compact disc, and ...

With 20+ years of experience covering consumer tech and policy, Chloe now leads PCMag's news coverage. In August 1984, my parents bought an Apple IIe for about $2,500, making them one of the first on ...

Floppy disks linger in Linux through code cleanups, surviving in prisons, retro circles, and industry despite technological advances elsewhere.

When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Want to launch a nuclear missile? You’ll need a floppy disk. That’s according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), which found that the Pentagon was still using ...