Today is the founding anniversary of the International Business Machines Corporation, but you know them as IBM. IBM is a technology company that is credited with sutch vital inventions as the floppy disk, ATMs, modern barcodes, swipeable credit cards, and more. To say they make a lot of stuff that keeps modern society working is an understatement.
I know I say this a lot, but broad topics are the hardest to cover on this site, and broad is the best word I have to decide IBM's range and legacy of inventions. Everything from photographing molecules to make a stop motion movie to AI that are better at chess than any human. They are simply in the business of inventing things.
[CONTRIBUTOR’S NOTE: the Internet Archive has a whole collection of imaged (saved) IBM floppy disks that you can look through. It’s just the data saved, though, so you’d need to find an IBM emulator that actually works. Luckily the archive has a whole collection of old-school emulators, too ;-) ]
Floppy disks are in like the five most asteticly pleasing forms of data storage with DVD, USB, VHS, and QR codes