Didn’t floppy disks actually exist?
That’s what Big Floppy want you to believe.
Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
Me when I’m in a refusing modernization challenge and my opponent is Japan:
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
Skeptic, clicked, confirmed. Holly shit! Japan is using floppies in 21st century
It’s why would I enjoy watching a Japanese versions of cyberpunk dystopias. They still have VCRs, crt TVs, and fax machines well into the 22nd century
That’s a fictitious character.
Actual vending machines are never in this state.Higher probabilities are:
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Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
Maybe it’s a super disk LS-240. They were up 240 MB.
I had one of those beast: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zip_drive Probably still have it somewhere among the dust.
I replaced my jazz drive when burners became more popular and cheaper. I could buy 100 cdrs for the price of a zip disk. I only had a zip drive to begin with so I could work on my high school projects in computer graphics class from home (ah, going back and forth between Windows and Mac in 1999… it sucked)
Yeah, Zip disks suuuucked. I always had to carry two for redundancy because they failed to read so often. Even having every second or third CD burn fail, because you looked at it wrong, was more reliable than Zip disks.
What even is a good alternative save icon these days?! This is the only save icon I know.
Edit: lmao I’ve gotten so many replies! I love y’all.
/joke
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Ahh yes, something even more archaic is what’s required! How about a clay tablet icon?
“Why is the save button shaped like a complaint about poor quality copper?”
I saw this joke and got the reference man. You should feel good about this one.
sometimes there is a arrow going into a folder
but then again noone knows what the foldwe icon is supposed to depict nowadays either
A floppy disk is fine, just like Photoshop uses terms like dodge and burn, references to obsolete dark room methods, like cutting and “pasting” were literally how some layout projects worked.
Referencing the last physical incarnation of saving a file seems fitting!
Pretty harsh to the compact disc don’t you think?
CD wasn’t even the last physical media that was adopted widely. Technically I think that may be thumbdrives for now, but there were some tape and disc shaped, but high density for the time (like 20MB to 100MB for the disk shaped one, and 1GB to 2GB tapes.) and named something I don’t remember, media options that were created in the late '90s early '00s before thumbdrives became a thing.
Zip disk/zip drive? wiki link
You don’t save to a CD, you burn it
Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)
Up arrow to a cloud
Vomits
It can be your own selfhosted cloud
You just described upload and download, not save.
is there a difference between download and save?
You’re viewing information held in temp memory and are committing it to a hard drive or more permanent cloud drive for later retrieval.
Yes there is a difference. If you already have the information on your drive you don’t download every time you make an edit.
I think you’ve misunderstood my point:
Web app > data is in temp > save commits it to disk
Offline app > data is in temp > save commits it to disk
does “temp” meaning RAM, user directory, remote cloud directory, browser temp files, WordPress backend db and “disk” meaning hard drive or one-drive or Google drive or the permanent remote cloud directory, or production db significantly alter the concept of the function?
Might be controversial, but I think “no.” I don’t think there is a difference between me “saving”, for example, a web page in WordPress as the final version, and me “saving” the offline wire frame design to my hard drive, and me “saving” a PDF of the web page to my downloads folder.
No, download would be a down arrow from a cloud. “Saving” on a modern system typically implies a local cache paired with a cloud backend.
Not my fault that they’re wrong.
Hard to disk drives are still around but you might want to make it look generically like a generic that could also be an SSD just as easy
Congratulations on the drugs, I guess
The difficult part would be depicting a SSD. It’s just a rectangle.
Maybe put a folder inside the rectangle?
And a cloud inside the folder. And a floppy disk inside the cloud.
Up arrow to a cloud
nice try Microsoft
Could be legitimate when it’s a Web app where saving is “push my version to the server”.
Maybe a life preserver ring won’t become out of date? 🛟
That’s ‘Help’, not ‘Save’
This is Help
Well ackshually this picture spells “NUJV”
The other day I got a press release about disaster preparedness for grade school kids.
It made mention of teaching kids how to use a battery powered radio to get information. And it suddenly struck me that my 8 year old nephew likely has never even SEEN an FM radio, much less would know how to tune one to a specific station.
Shit like that makes me feel reaaaaaaallllly old…
In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera
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.
You think it’s bad that the save icons have floppy disks?
A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for “database” (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it’s running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system
Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.
Jesus Christ, people really do love to make a problem out of anything, as long as it has “Microsoft” on the label, eh?
Onedrive has been known to just randomly break programs like razer synapse and plenty of other things, and also reinstalling itself for no reason. A friend had a game running at 20fps and it was a known issue that onedrive caused it. I would prefer to have things autosave without using something that is acting indistinguishable from a virus.
TIL about skeuomorphisms
Interesting. If skeuomorphism means using “new objects or interfaces that mimic the appearance and functionality of their real-world counterparts to make them more familiar and easier to use”, I wonder what the word is for using old and irrelevant objects in UIs that no longer make sense to the users.
