Symbolism

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Yep. And yep.

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Got me real curious. What app? Care to share a screenshot?

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It's interesting how that precedent happened though.

30 years ago saving something basically involved taking a floppy, putting it into the floppy drive, and then hitting a "save" button. That was often because computers didn't even have a hard drive. And, when they did have a hard drive, having your files on a floppy drive was basically the only way to get them onto another computer. So, because of that, a floppy drive was pretty universally recognized as a place where you saved files.

In the time since then, saving to a hard drive became more common. But, it's hard to use a hard drive as an image for "save" because only computer geeks know what a hard drive actually looks like. Even if you could get people to recognize a hard drive icon it's also ambiguous because you use your hard drive for many other things other than saving. Finally, it's also less necessary to put the save files on external media, because you can email them, upload them, save to the cloud, etc.

The only physical media where people still save things is USB thumb drives. So, you could put in an image of a USB thumb drive, which more people would recognize, but that's more ambiguous because people only save files to a thumb drive in certain specific cases. It's also harder because there's not really a globally recognized thumb drive image. All floppy drives had to look more or less identical because of the constraints of the disk drive system. But, USB drives only have to have the USB part in common -- and in some cases that's hideable or retractable.

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You can spread out the pressure to a much greater degree with a hover device.

A helicopter still has to exert enough force to lift say 900kg of mass. But, the surface area covered by a helicopter's rotors is pretty huge compared to the contact patch of even a big, soft tire. OTOH, there's going to be a lot of turbulence in the air pushed down by a rotor / hover device, which might damage some plants more than simply being squashed by a soft tire.

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Missing the haft and fletching.

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ThatsANoformeDawg.jpg

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Me neither, it looks like it should mean "download".

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Here are the icons in the default text editor in Mint Cinnamon. Save is the third from the left (the first 2 are New and Open).

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The Floppy Disk is Computer Jesus. They both died to become the universal symbol of salvation.

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That's ugly af, and first time I've seen it.

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Path dependency

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I wouldn't peg that as the save. It looks like a download button. I get it within the context of skumorphism, but that down arrow icon already pretty universally means download.

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After he masters that, get him an MFM or RLL hard drive and teach him to low level format it and set the best interleave.

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Planet will be fine and livable. It will be different, but livable. Even most nuclear war scenarios will not destroy everything, just most populated areas by now.

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You can still buy new 3 1/2" disks. And usb connected drives are available to read and write them. So they ain't dead.

But I do pour one out for the 5 1/4". The OG of common portable storage. It was the floppist of the floppies.

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My Fedora KDE native applications do. But downloaded software still uses the floppy icon if those developers want to.

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Does any of that matter to the planet? Like any of the ancient plants and critters that have come and gone, humans will have their time and then pass from existence and memory. Something new and different will replace us.

Such is evolution.

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nuh uh, mine's a banana.

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That's not true, this is the current version in Arch Linux and it's a floppy.