NASA's floppy disk appears on the ISS International Space Station

While celebrating its 20th anniversary not long ago, the astronaut of the European Space Agency and now a resident at ISS, astronaut has discovered a piece from the past associated with history. Human technology: a plastic envelope filled with old floppy disks.

The tweet found Gerst's floppy on ISS attracted many followers.

Previously, floppy disks were an indispensable item in computer document storage in the last century, and now they are really obsolete.

According to CNET, Gerst said he had found a locker on the ISS and that it might have been locked for a long time. One of the floppy disks found is labeled Norton Utilities for Windows 95/98, others have the NASA logo. Some of the titles are titled "Personal data support crew crew" with the name Shep and Sergei. It is possible that this is a floppy disk of NASA astronaut William Shepherd and Russian astronaut Sergei Krikalev, both of which are members of Expedition 1 crew in 2000.

Finding floppy disks in the past is an interesting reminder of the long-standing legacy of ISS that has been left over the past two decades. Technology development has come a long way but historical objects still exist.