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When talking about vintage tech from the '90s, it's common for millennials to bring up the Walkman, Tamagotchi, Polaroid cameras, and CDs. All of these died out and then saw a recent resurgence — save ...

Microsoft vet revisits the gloriously manual era of write protection Microsoft's Raymond Chen took a delightful trip down memory lane this week, tracing how write protection for removable media has ...

Floppy disks have been around for decades—over 50 years!—and while the storage medium is largely obsolete, it's not completely dead. Just ask Tom Persky, who after several decades still maintains a ...

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ago ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. If you’re old enough to remember floppy disks then, well, you’re old. I’m one of those people. I remember carrying around stacks of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...