Knowledge about the medium is as valuable as the content on the disk ...

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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 ...

The other day, as I was doing some spring-cleaning, I stumbled upon something I forgot I even owned: a plastic tote filled with old 3.5-inch floppy disks from the nineties. With fascination, I sifted ...

I mean, hey, if it works. . . . I did find this quote curious: "The system is currently working just fine, but we know that with each increasing year, risk of data degradation on the floppy disks ...

John is a writer at Pocket-lint. He is passionate about all things technology, and is always keeping up with the latest smartphone and PC releases. John has previously written at MobileSyrup. When ...