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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.
Set it in stone.
...maybe something more basic like this:
"Why is the save button shaped like a complaint about poor quality copper?"
Back then the version control really was v2 Final Final. The good ol days.
We still do that level of version control. But we used to, too
Sorry for the convenience
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?
You don't save to a CD, you burn it
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
What about MicroSD? Still being put on game consoles and smartphones to this day.
True that. I tend to lump them in with thumbdrives.
Zip drive?
Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)
Vomits
nice try Microsoft
You just described upload and download, not save.
Up arrow to Lakitu.
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
That or posting on mobile while sleep deprived as fuck. Rereading a post made in bed the night prior is always a humbling experience.
Hey they tried! 😂
The difficult part would be depicting a SSD. It's just a rectangle.
The chip icon, you know the one next to the other chip icon.
It's just the download button, truly. They already associate that icon with saving files from the web. The down arrow pointing to a rectangle or laptop icon in word or similar app wouldn't be too ambiguous...
Or, truly, the floppy will just become a nebulous, originless heiroglyph meaning "keep this information for later and let me put it somewhere to find it again," and some Gen. Beta child will get curious and learn about ye olde days of magnetic media from Wikipedia.
Maybe a life preserver ring won’t become out of date? 🛟
That's 'Help', not 'Save'
This is Help
cool, now we got a reference older than the 3.5 inch floppy
Well ackshually this picture spells "NUJV"
Maybe their spelling is what they need help with 🤔
Yeah but that's awfully anglo-centric. Saving life has nothing to do with saving a file in other languages.
☁️ is a (rather terrible) way to indicate cloud saving.
I've seen an SD card used before.
It's time we upgrade the icon to Zip drives, or maybe Sony memory sticks.
This:
Or a Christian cross (“Jesus saves”)
SD card?
I once saw a usb thumb drive as an icon. Guess it didn't take off.
It might be the best actually since they're still around and, never say never, may not go anywhere. Though a USBA icon will confuse the USBC crowd soon enough.
sometimes there is a arrow going into a folder
but then again noone knows what the foldwe icon is supposed to depict nowadays either
Yeah it's old and loses relevance, but we can go older and it circles back to recognizable again
✍️
Or just say the vending machine is because it's a store and you are storing the data when you save
A disc is also been used for some.
parchment & quill 📜🪶
Realistically the icon could br anything, even the green check emoji: ✅
But if we want to retain the thematic reference to a disk- icon-ify an m.2 2230 or similar and literally just swap em. lol
Image for reference:
Would need to have some sort of drive icon - maybe? - that is unlikely to ever be forgotten.. with a down arrow embedded inside.
Hmmm.
That's a download button, an up arrow on the disk is an upload
The save icon is too established to be changed. It can be simplified and become a glyph no one understands the meaning of, but it's cemented