YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because why ...

And when I say from scratch, I really mean it. I initially assumed that polymatt would merely be creating the diskette frame ...

Outside of their use in some legacy systems and among retro enthusiasts, floppy disks are pretty much obsolete these days – ...

“Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. REUTERS But he is not expecting it to survive another 20 years.

When I wrote about a modern OS that could run on a floppy disk, I knew I had to try it. Something about going back to the old days when apps could fit within a 1.44MB disk format ...

Floppy disks made news recently when Japan's digital minister, Taro Kano, declared "a war" on the devices, tweeting earlier this month that Japan's digital agency would change regulations ...

This project all started when an investigation unit in Maryland approached the Bloop Museum with a request to use their antique computer resources to decode the information on a 5.25″ floppy disk.

In a sense, it’s amazing floppy disks have hung around for this long. They only hold 1.44 megabytes of space – still enough for word processing documents but little else.

"Floppy disk production ended 10 years ago, and we've urged that bank to go online," a spokeswoman for the city's accounting department told CBS News. "But they cling to their old system." ...

I never had as many 5.25" disks fail as I had 3.5" disks fail. And that's odd, right, because the 3.5" disks have the slider that keeps dust/dirt out when the media isn't in the drive.