It's a race against time (and magnetic decay) to preserve decades of cultural history stored on obsolete hardware.

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The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing schoolwork in a 90s computer lab, and, as it turns out, even some of today's ...

Two pilots managing software in an airplane cockpit - Rathke/Getty Images The floppy disk: An archaic software storage medium that you might associate with playing "Oregon Trail" in the 80s, doing ...

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My Tsukhime Trial Edition (月姫 体験版) finally arrived, one of only 50 copies in the world. Only to discover that US Customs had ...

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Scientists have found a way to store all of humanity's most important data inside a piece of glass — and it could last longer than civilisation itself. From floppy disks to USBs, keeping important ...