#save icon

[internettythings]

[fallensapphires]

Media: Floppy Disks

Not born to be rich, by 1981 I had nonetheless begun to use a PC that required for its operation the absorption of several hundred pages of protocols and the placement of very large floppy disks in the freezer to fix frequent crashes.

[frogshunnedshadows]

Saint Saveicon is here to remind you to save that thing you're working on.

[redbeardace]

You know you’re old when you discover that there’s a designer and a full team of people who think that this is an accurate representation of a floppy disk.

[justsomeshowerthoughts]

Save

It’s 2017, but the save icon is still a floppy disc.

[little-tattooed-lass-blog]

Icons based on old technology, a topic I find interesting as a graphic designer.

The save button icon, universally, is a floppy disk, yet most of the younger generation have never seen a floppy disk, nor know what a floppy disk is. Soon, no one will have any idea what that little shape means.

The phone icon is a handset. The voicemail icon is a reel-to-reel tape.

At what point do we change these universally? And to what? Because soon no one will know what on earth they are supposed to represent.

[arctic-hands]

Not to sound like Ellen DeGeneres, but do kids these days even know who The Flintstones are or do they just know 'em as the Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles mascots?

[fckyeahnetart]