A little nostalgic trip down memory lane.

Floppy disks still fly—literally. Here’s why some airplanes in 2025 still rely on 1990s tech for navigation updates.

However, gamers quickly caught on and just typed them out in retro Doom titles to get the benefits. Doom 2016 changed that approach with developer console cheats that gave you a variety of buffs, ...

The current ATCS floppy disk system has been in use since 1998 and utilizes a mix of automatic mode functioning when the trains are running in the subway and manual operations when they are moving ...

More and more pieces of technology – from the TYK Radio Telephone to the 3.5-inch Floppy disk – have been gradually added to the registry since 2008, and the PS2 is number 365 in the list ...

Floppy disks are still around outside Japan, too. The embroidery and avionics industries use them, and until recently the United States’ nuclear arsenal did, too.. Within the government, Mr ...

Japan won its ‘war’ on floppy disks, but its love of archaic tech lingers. Japan has long been known for innovation, but experts say the nation’s lasting embrace of outdated hardware may ...

In 2009, Sony had a 70% share of the Japanese domestic floppy disk market, which amounted to about 12 million disks in total — with a combined capacity of just 17 terabytes.

Kono's efforts to move on from such outdated technologies included a 2021 declaration of "war" on floppy disks, and he's now finally announced victory for Japan, telling Reuters, "We have won the ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off.

His buddy, Steve Jobs, got a 5.25-inch floppy disk from Shugart's new company, Shugart Associates, in 1976, and after a lot of hacking, Woz got the first floppy drive to run on what would become ...

So why are we doing floppy disk," said Katie Guillen, SFMTA passenger. Turns out that in 1998, SFMTA had the latest cutting edge technology when they installed their automatic train control system.