to store information
The floppy disc drive was invented at IBM in 1967. It used 8" floppy discs. The first floppy disc drive in an IBM personal computer appeared in 1981. By this time the original 8" floppy disc had been replace by a 5.25" disc.
"Diskette" or "Floppy Disk" are the normal terms used in German.
what is a floppy disc
Although they're not used any more - that would be a floppy-disc
formatted
A Floppy disc is a input device.
For putting a floppy disc in. Floppy discs were used a lot in the 1970's as CD's were not invented until the 1980's
A floppy disc
you can format
Yes.
Yes, it takes longer to load from a floppy disk.
Given that you have a floppy disc drive then yes you can.