Symbolism

[bahnd@lemmy.world]

Skeuomorphism is the word your looking for, its why your digital cameras still make a mechanical click sound even through there isnt a mechanical shutter

[plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works]

Pen and paper is still the superior way to make your first draft and anyone who disagrees is wrong.

[varyk@sh.itjust.works]

so shall it be

[5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Well, pen & paper was modern 2 kya.

[schmidtgenetics@lemmy.world]

That’s wasn’t just a disc….?

[bytemeister@lemmy.world]

The pointer icon is an arrowhead, ~74000 years old. I don't want to hear people complaining about how old the floppy disk is.

[ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

It’s only universally recognized because of precedent. The true challenge is to create something that can be understood by someone that has no background with computers (or whatever)

Like the radiation ️ thing, danger ️ , are supposed to be examples of this. Radiation more so because it’s not supposed to rely on language even

Now excuse me while I press the call button on my phone which is shaped like a landline handset from 30 years ago

[egrets@lemmy.world]

For sure, but it doesn't actually matter whether it's abstract from the outset or has become abstract through technological advance so long as it's unique and understood. Someone who's never seen a floppy disk will still learn it quickly, because it's distinctive.

[schmidtgenetics@lemmy.world]

Looks like a Switch cartridge as well, so no, that’s gonna be lost soon.

[wanakatree@lemm.ee]

My wife coaches high school field hockey. She told me how one day she overheard them talking about how one of them lost their work on a homework document and had to start over.

One of the girls said "you just gotta get in the habit of clicking the blue square", which the others were confirming is the thing to do. So then my wife asks "blue square, what do you mean" and another clarified "the save button".

They had no idea what a floppy disc was

[lnxtx@feddit.nl]

I hate hand writing and drawing.
My drafts are computer aided.

But in case of emergency, I have muscle memory.

[5ibelius9insterberg@feddit.org]

Nero - burning ROM

‍️

[ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

But what if we go extinct and computers remain functional? will aliens that discover our planet be able to save their documents? Did you think about that??

[joel_feila@lemmy.world]

You can make calls on your phone. I gotta text my friends this

[egrets@lemmy.world]

I've said it once zero times and I'll say it again. Far-future hypothetical space aliens should RTFM.

[deconceptualist@lemm.ee]

Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven't looked that way in 25+ years.

[infynis@midwest.social]

[pfm@scribe.disroot.org]

Do you imagine how wonderful Lemme could be if everyone drafted theirs posts on paper, prior to clicking "Send"?

[eheran@lemmy.world]

How is the nuclear sign in any way universally understandable? It is properly by learning it's meaning.

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

I've seen a growing number of programs that use an arrow pointing towards a picture of a computer or hard drive for "save* and an arrow pointing away from it for "load" and I feel like that's very graceful skeuomorph to shift to that might hold up for longer (although it breaks if it's talking about cloud save, but replace the picture of a computer with picture of a cloud and you're back in business I suppose)