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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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.
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.
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
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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!
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Up arrow to a cloud, or down arrow to a platter (which, ironically, is also out-of-date)
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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.
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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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Probably just ironic humour.
People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.
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I'm 20 btw.
Lol
These are just what I had handy LMAO I'm also 30+ and still remember dialup so maybe it's not that impactful either way 😂
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Propaganda here boys. Japanese aren't having kids, there is no youth.
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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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Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?
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The only writing icon that matters is the drumming gif. It doesn’t even make sense anymore but it was so unbelievably perfect for the time. 
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