Floppy Disk Interview with the last man standing in the floppy disk business Mark Frauenfelder

media L.A. Public Library now has a DIY lab for digitizing old media like VHS tapes Rusty Blazenhoff

moral panics 1994 article warns about the "Floppy disk porn threat" Mark Frauenfelder

gadgets How the floppy disk scene's going in 2022 Rob Beschizza

Musical instruments How to turn your floppy disk drive into an awesome 8-bit instrument Thom Dunn

gadgets Stop to appreciate the brilliant engineering of the 3½-inch floppy disk Rob Beschizza

How the data was extracted from the Prince floppy disk and uploaded to the Internet archive Mark Frauenfelder

apple Did I really just switch from Mac to Windows? Mark Frauenfelder

useful stuff Gigantic tub of 22,000 Perler beads Mark Frauenfelder

Games A retrospective on the making of Tie Fighter John Struan

alternate history This video imagines Dropbox in the 1980s Mark Frauenfelder

Old school "IBM PC Compatible": how adversarial interoperability saved PCs from monopolization Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Cult of the Dead Cow: the untold story of the hacktivist group that presaged everything great and terrible about the internet Cory Doctorow

linux Why was a BogoMip bogus? Jason Weisberger

cgi A delightfully bad US Army animation starring a talking floppy disk (1985) David Pescovitz

alternate history What if Steam had been around in 1988? Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants Code Golf masterclass: fitting a whole bootable CDROM game into a tweet Cory Doctorow

Boing Boing Gadgets Floppy disk coasters Rob Beschizza

Games Making computer games from scratch in 1987 Rob Beschizza

happy mutants A deep dive into the race to preserve our digital heritage Cory Doctorow