Floppy disks are recording media in which magnetically coated or vapor-deposited disks are placed in a protective case, but they are rarely used in modern times when HDDs and SSDs are widespread. A ...

The floppy disk might seem next to useless in the modern era of flash memory and solid state drives, but that hasn’t stopped one entrepreneurial hacker from developing a tool that turns the simple ...

British artist Nick Gentry‘s paintings give long-forgotten floppy disks a new lease on life. They’re still storage media, just in a much more literal sense. At some point recently, you’ve probably ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Indianapolis artist Taylor Smith started painting on floppy disks eight years ago when she discovered some in storage. "I was like, 'I'm never going to use these. They're not really ...

When Taylor Smith talks about the future of her floppy disk paintings, she points to the boxes stored at her northeast-side studio. Together, they hold more than 50,000 of the square-shaped computer ...

In my pre-teen and teenage years, there were few things that made me happier than going on adventures to other worlds. I carried around the “portals” to those worlds in a clear plastic box full of ...