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 ...

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 ...

It's one thing to upcycle book pages and mason jars into something cool. But those old floppy disks from your childhood deserve something better. Something magical. Like, say, becoming pieces of art ...

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 ...

When Sony stopped manufacturing new floppy disks in 2011, most assumed the outdated storage medium – of which there is only a finite, decreasing number left – would die off. Although from a "different ...