From pencils rewinding cassettes to phone books as actual directories, these forgotten household staples reveal a ...

Gracie Muehlberger wrote letters to her future self and stored them in a multicolored trinket box on her dresser. Her notes, penned when she was 13 and signed “Gracie from the past,” bubbled with ...

In 1985, the technology landscape was unrecognisable compared to today. Back then, the most important tool for PC users was a 5.25-inch floppy disk that stored just 360KB of data. When the 3.5-inch ...

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 ...

In context: If there's one thing YouTube has shown, it's that almost anything can be built by yourself at home if you have the time, skill, and required parts. Take, for example, polymatt, who managed ...

There's nothing quite like the drive to build something just to see if you can. YouTuber polymatt set out to create a floppy disk drive, the favored storage medium of yesteryear, from scratch, because ...

When it comes to iOS 26, Liquid Glass and legibility have been the subject of much discussion around the iPhone software redesign. On the Mac, however, app icon decisions have stirred up a lot of ...

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A floppy disk did what thumb drives do, back when we talked about megabytes instead of terabytes. It might seem crazy that the 400 remaining Boeing 747s used by airlines and shipping companies around ...

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 ...