Back in my day we extruded our own polyester film, coated it with our own rust and cut them into discs free hand! All that for 170K of storage!
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Satire no?
Has to be. The Japanese still use fax machines
Yeah. This shit comes around once or twice a year. It’s something to make the younger generations feel special and distanced from their predecessors.
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Propaganda here boys. Japanese aren't having kids, there is no youth.
lolll
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Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
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Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.
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It is only mid 2020s and people already asking such questions. Imagine late 2030s or even 2040s.
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Because it is hard to put there Jesus. He, same as floppy, died to became a save icon. /s
I worked with an engineering software that was developed by a Christian team, they put a cross as the Save Icon. Cuz Jesus Saves. It was a good Dad joke so I had to let it slide.
Dad joke, lil joke, ghost joke 😎 The Holy Trinity of jokes.
Every time you save a file in Microsoft, your credit card is charged $.50
Nice try Satan, but my start up is building ads into car start ups. You can't switch gears until the ad is done.
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Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
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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.
Lots of open source projects actually have some really good alternatives for it.
/joke
Set it in stone.
...maybe something more basic like this:
"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.
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sometimes there is a arrow going into a folder
but then again noone knows what the foldwe icon is supposed to depict nowadays either
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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
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In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera
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…
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