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

In late 1981, Sony surprised the photographic world with the first electronic still camera – the Mavica. The Mavica (which stood for Magnetic Video Camera) was not a digital camera, but an analog one, ...

As Netflix builds out its visual-podcasting slate, some media watchers say we need new language to describe the medium. It ...

There's no book yet, but after graduating from Temple, Greenberg helped launch women's basketball into a national spotlight ...

From iconic dial-up modems to VHS tapes, there are many items that Baby Boomers used daily but have completely vanished.

Before the NES, home consoles were a burned market in the US. Nintendo reversed that narrative with games that turned consoles into a global industry again.

From dial-up modems to cassette tapes, explore the nostalgic items that shaped a generation but have now vanished from ...

It feels like a cassette revival comes along every few years, and with the latest iteration in full swing, we were both startled and amused to see that at least one inventor is re-exploring the idea ...

Archivists and researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have unearthed a recording from the 1940s.

Elon Musk has now scheduled the death of human language, which feels efficient. Most civilizations wait for decline to become obvious before declaring ...

Though the floppy disk was invented more than 50 years ago, it turns out airplanes continue to regularly use this archaic ...

Those files are virtual hard disks that, when opened, mount as a local disk, bypassing some Windows security features. Inside the disk is a Windows Script File (WSF) purporting to be the expected PDF: ...