5.25"floppy disk
The one true floppy
9"
Nine? I swear the floppy was EIGHT inches
You are right. I still have a box with programs I wrote
I like: Cylinder, Snowflake, Vault, or Piggy bank
Han solo frozen in carbonite
A rotary pay phone powered by a steam engine.
every letter in the alphabet started as a symbol of something 2500-6000 years ago, “A” for instance is an upside-down Ox face. people in future generations will continue using the floppy symbol, cuz they learned that means saving, despite floppies not being relevant to their lives
Gotta go with an even older symbol, the ring buoy.
A safe or vault symbol as an indicator for safe keeping
🗄 or 🗃 come to mind.
Yes let’s make it even more archaic
Go older: a punch card being inserted into a tray
Let’s be real, when some shitty company (MS) gets around to it, it will be: ☁️⬆️
A quill
An elegant solution indeed
We’re going even more old fashioned.
If the floppy disk was no longer the save symbol for software, and I had to chose one, I’d chose the floppy disk symbol.
But you worded your question wisely to avoid that loophole, so I’m not sure what to use instead for an otherwise unique and ubiquitous symbol, already known as “the save file icon” for two generations that have not seen it.
While we’re at it, let’s also replace the phone icons with a rectangle, as to not confuse anyone.
Just change one pixel and call it new.
I think the download icons will become synonymous with saving. It’s functionally the same, move thingy to a location on your computer.
What about saving on a cloud service? Very misleading.
Up arrow on top of a cloud, I think that one is standard now
A cassette tape.
Hahahaha, dammit you win
Goatse
