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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Man, Nero's designs were so gaudy, i miss them
That’s the program, the burn button ITSELF is a flaming Disc.
The Floppy Disk is Computer Jesus. They both died to become the universal symbol of salvation. ;)
You can still buy new 3 1/2" disks. And usb connected drives are available to read and write them. So they ain't dead.
But I do pour one out for the 5 1/4". The OG of common portable storage. It was the floppist of the floppies.
There's some additional nostalgia attached to calling them with the simple fractions as opposed to the decimal ones, even if they mean the same thing. HDDs for example are still around and I've always seen their form factor as 3.5", not 3 1/2".
Don't think I've ever heard anyone say three point five" HDDS or read it in the decimal form-- Three and 5 tenths. It's always said as the fractional form-- 3 1/2".
I think they mark them as 3.5" because it's easier to typeset a decimal than fractions. Even those accursed 3 1/2" floppys seem to be marked 3.5" these days.
OG was the even larger physically / smaller data storage 8" floppy
I have seen the 8" floppys but never used one. I did use and have a fair collection of 5 1/4" for a good number of years. And I cursed the 3 1/2" floppies for their short, yet brutal lifespan. I can remember installing Windows 3.11 and AutoCAD 9 with a stacks of those accursed things. And daily backups for the bookkeeper were constant headache until we got a tape drive.
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?
Planet will be fine and livable. It will be different, but livable. Even most nuclear war scenarios will not destroy everything, just most populated areas by now.
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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.
The pointer icon is an arrowhead, ~74000 years old. I don't want to hear people complaining about how old the floppy disk is.
nuh uh, mine's a banana. 🍌
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It's similar to an arrowhead, but is it actually an arrowhead? Or is it just an arrow?
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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".
That's not true, this is the current version on Arch and it's a floppy.
Huh, interesting. It's probably my icon theme, then. I'll check when I get a chance.
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I like it. It's universally recognisable, you know what it means and what it does.
It’s only universally recognized because of precedent. The true challenge is to create something that can be understood by someone that has no background with computers (or whatever)
Like the radiation ☢️ thing, danger ⚠️ , are supposed to be examples of this. Radiation more so because it’s not supposed to rely on language even
Now excuse me while I press the call button on my phone which is shaped like a landline handset from 30 years ago
For sure, but it doesn't actually matter whether it's abstract from the outset or has become abstract through technological advance so long as it's unique and understood. Someone who's never seen a floppy disk will still learn it quickly, because it's distinctive.
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Path dependency
My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.
Which never happens yet everyone repeats it as if it's a common occurrence.
I like the joke, but let's not pretend this is something that happens.
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.
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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.
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
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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.
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