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 ...

Now this is one amazing Goodwill find: A vintage pop-up book designed to teach burgeoning nerds about the wonders of the modern computer. Floppy disks, ASCII, and the dot-matrix printer. Oh my. Some ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1987, the American artist Keith Haring, known for his signature bright, cartoonish style, created five digital drawings on a chunky personal computer. Since then, these images have been stored on ...

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 ...

One of the greatest joys of being a technologist is that I get to see, often first-hand, some of humanity's most novel ideas. Case in point: One enterprising hacker has taken a TRS-80 -- one of the ...

San Francisco may be in Silicon Valley, but part of its rail system is still running on technology that hasn't been on the cutting edge since the Reagan administration. Officials from the San ...

But seriously, how are so many industries still using magnetic disks, even now? When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Way back in ...

Do you have any old floppy disks still lying around in some neglected corner of your house? Do you even know what a floppy disk is? For the uninitiated, floppy disks became commercially available in ...