SD card. Half is old timers won’t even realize it’s not a floppy disk.
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Reel to reel tape? Ahahaha
Nothing. Why do I need to manage storage myself? Everything i do should just be automatically saved. Each doc should essentially be version control so you can intelligently step back and fork if you need to.
I think we should just keep the floppy disk symbol at this point, because it doesn't matter what it was originally based on or whether that exists any more--everyone knows what that symbol means, and it can't really be confused with anything else.
There's no point making an icon that looks like any other particular kind of storage device since those are changing all the time. So we either have to pick some real world thing like a safe or warehouse or grain silo or whatever. or invent some completely new symbol that's not related to anything and then everyone would have to learn it. Which takes us back to just keeping the floppy disk symbol.
⬇️ or
Thats for downloading though.
That’s for downloading though.
Right.
When you grab something from somewhere else and do “what” with that thing you “downloaded?”
Like what are you doing with that file? ***ing it to your hard drive of some kind… what do you call that?
To **** a file you downloaded?
“Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.
You take an online thing and make it local.
I understand how some younger folk might not see as stark a contrast in saving v downloading.
I'd say if you're 30+, you prolly do.
“Downloading” is how you acquire any external data to your internal storage media.
Aaahhaha. I didn't even read that bit before writing my first lines, and that only confirms my doubts.
Never seen these, eh?
I'm not downloading when I save a file I edited locally on my computer.
Need to disambiguate between saving locally and saving directly to cloud storage.
Animated Save Album from Mario and Luigi Partners in Time:
I cant find a gif of this, but the rainbow section is supposed to be animated, and the book opens when you hit (click) it.
the final fantasy 7 save crystal. because just look at it. LOOK AT IT!
Core memory. It's non-volatile.
Pirate flag or dollar sign, depending on how the file is obtained.
But I like the floppy disk save symbol
A hand placing a book on a shelf
Or placing something more modern on a shelf
I'd finish my idea but I'd have to charge you 50 million dollars for it so yea...
AM.
A PSX Memory Card, because that would be awesome.
I reject the question. That's not a picture of a floppy disc, that is the glyph that means save
You literally called it the save symbol. And that's what it is...100 years from now, if we're still around and still have computers, the save icon will still be some stylized glyph based on the floppy disc
The existence of the floppy disc is already just a bit of trivia about the save icon
It's like asking what we should change the Bluetooth symbol to? Why do you yearn for the world to burn?
An icon can be any random glyph, but it has to stay recognizable and consistent in meaning, that's the entire concept here
By OP's logic, this
#A
is a drawing of an ox head.
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I wonder if we would would really "expect" a new safe icon. Most modern software has auto-saving. Games for example often just use a spinning circle to indicate it's saving. Word and google docs just say "don't worry, we're continuously saving your work" when you hit Ctrl + S.
I imagine if you want to save something locally you have the downward arrow for downloading, or some other icon for moving and copying files.
I dont trust word to save anything if I don't hit CTRL S
I don't trust word to save anything even if I hit Ctrl S
Correction, without hitting Ctrl+S about a half dozen times in rapid succession
Yeah and even if you save it, good fucking luck finding it again.
Even worse now that all docs are saving to "Office 365". No you stupid bastard, I want to save the file to my hard disk on the computer I fucking own!
The record symbol from every phone camera
But that is for recording, not saving.
Potato, potato
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