Nero burning program used an icon of the colosseum on fire to represent their burn button.
I see no issue with using a floppy disk.
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That’s wasn’t just a disc….?
Nero - burning ROM
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Wow... I never made that connection. I feel stupid AF.
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The pointer icon is an arrowhead, ~74000 years old. I don't want to hear people complaining about how old the floppy disk is.
It's similar to an arrowhead, but is it actually an arrowhead? Or is it just an arrow?
Missing the shaft and fletching.
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The idea that human society will make it to 4269 as well as the old Twitter logo at the bottom really dates this one. 😥
People probably said similar at the fall of every empire throughout history. People will endure and build anew. Life finds a way.
Most other empires didn't have the ability to destroy the ecosphere of the planet they lived on.
The modern empires can do it not just on purpose using nuclear weapons, but also accidentally through climate change.
Life will find a way, but will civilization? And will the dominant species still be humans?
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It's unlikely that people will go extinct, but we're perfectly capable of creating a Mad Max or Fallout type of world.
There's KDE software (might be a Linux-wide thing, idk) that changed it to a down arrow pointing to a rectangle. I don't like it. I really don't fucking like it.
Me neither, it looks like it should mean "download".
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The Floppy Disk is Computer Jesus. They both died to become the universal symbol of salvation. ;)
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The various symbols found on audio and visual media comes from tape reel machines. Specifically the right arrow Play button only makes sense in relation to tape movement, yet we use it for just about any format to begin play.
Timelines also progress from left to right, so that one holds up
My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.
My wife coaches high school field hockey. She told me how one day she overheard them talking about how one of them lost their work on a homework document and had to start over.
One of the girls said "you just gotta get in the habit of clicking the blue square", which the others were confirming is the thing to do. So then my wife asks "blue square, what do you mean" and another clarified "the save button".
They had no idea what a floppy disc was
I had to explain the save button to my 9 year old about a week ago. And then I found myself explaining what a floppy disk was. Tonight I'll ask him if he knows what that is a picture of. I'll be impressed if he remembers. If he fails the check, imma gonna launch into a lecture on boot disks, games, and batch files. Wish me luck!
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I'd be surprised if using these kinds of point-and-click GUIs was still common in 2244 years, as opposed to some kind of language- or thought processing. Then again, people are still writing with pen and paper sometimes, despite all the digital advances.
Pen and paper is still the superior way to make your first draft and anyone who disagrees is wrong.
I hate hand writing and drawing.
My drafts are computer aided.
But in case of emergency, I have muscle memory.
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I've seen a growing number of programs that use an arrow pointing towards a picture of a computer or hard drive for "save* and an arrow pointing away from it for "load" and I feel like that's very graceful skeuomorph to shift to that might hold up for longer (although it breaks if it's talking about cloud save, but replace the picture of a computer with picture of a cloud and you're back in business I suppose)
I've seen those being used as download and upload but not for saving.
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Maybe, just maybe, someday it gets updated to an SD Card.
Skeuomorphism is the word your looking for, its why your digital cameras still make a mechanical click sound even through there isnt a mechanical shutter
Path dependency
Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven't looked that way in 25+ years.
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