Maybe it's time to change the save icon into a USB drive.
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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These days I'm starting to see more and more of an arrow pointing down towards a hard drive, a file folder, or an outbox bin. I feel like that's a suitable replacement.
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Because it is hard to put there Jesus. He, same as floppy, died to became a save icon. /s
I worked with an engineering software that was developed by a Christian team, they put a cross as the Save Icon. Cuz Jesus Saves. It was a good Dad joke so I had to let it slide.
Dad joke, lil joke, ghost joke 😎 The Holy Trinity of jokes.
I once had what I thought was a friend, but who was definitely a teacher. He joked that he brought a floppy disk to his school and his students asked who had 3d printed a save icon.
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"Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!"
If young people anywhere would see floppies, I'm guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They're notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.
I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.
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That's a fictitious character.
Actual vending machines are never in this state.
Higher probabilities are:
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