Cool but why did they include those 3D printed save icons?
Look closer. Those are 5.25" floppies, which never had the popularity as save icons that 3.5" floppies did.
I’m not about to let a little thing like perfect factual accuracy get in the way of a dumb joke.
Fair.
Heh. I’ve had this thought many times, that we used the floppy as a save icon for longer than we even used the damn floppy, and for almost that whole time, there were tons of people coming online who’d never used floppies and would get no help whatsoever from that icon.
Recently I notice that the bookmark has become the metaphor for “save.” Literally an icon showing the end of a bookmark hanging forward. But is this actually an improvement? Does anyone fucking read books anymore??
their peoples used storage devices they called “floppies” yet they were rigid squares. no one is certain of the origin of this term and the leading theory is that the squares simply calcified over time.
funny. That’s exactly how archeology works. They try to fit the logic and customs of today into what people actually did in the past
Being in a museum doesn’t make it ancient. Moma had the iPod and iMac on display when those things were like 5-10 years old.
My local science museum had a laptop from the '90s on display, with the caption “computing in the 1900s”. My kids asked if that was what I had in school when I was their age, and I had to break the news to them that I was already done with school when those were current…
This trend of saying 1900s for the end of that century seems intentionally aging to me. That was 26 years ago. I feel like even at 50 years it is a little odd to start using that term. I feel like it implies it was at least close to 100 years ago
It was in high school actually. I’m soooooo old
