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If you thought the bungled rollout of HealthCare.gov was bad, the Federal Register's use of computer antiquities is much worse.

The Office of the Federal Register, which serves as the daily journal of the U.S. government, does have a fairly sleek website, but it's also still using the long-obsolete 3.5 inch floppy disk and CD-ROM to receive files from other government agencies.

As it turns out, laws and security requirements have not kept up with technology changes - forcing the agency to still work like it's 1999.

Jada Smith of The New York Times writes:

Davita Vance-Cooks, the head of the Government Printing Office, which oversees The Federal Register, spoke at a congressional hearing on Wednesday about her department's attempts to make its work remain relevant in a post-print world.