Goatse
A CD image. Got to move with the times.
Isnt it the glorious zip disks turn first?
5.25"floppy disk
A quill
Go older: a punch card being inserted into a tray
An arrow pointing into a folder, similar to this. Sidesteps the tech issue altogether.
I mean, you’re just replacing one archaic symbol with another.
Normal people call computer directories ‘folders’.
I still use folders to organize paper documents. Taxes and medical stuff mostly.
We should do away with directories. Just one big block of files.
Screw multiple files, just use one big one. Just append anything you want to add and you’ll have everything in 1 spot
Makes sense. Then you can add some kind of index to the file so you can jump to the parts you want. Just track a list of chunks, so they don’t have to be contiguous.
Yeah, and we could give that huge file some kind of internal and logical structure to find those chunks, maybe something hierarchical with human readable names!
Yeah! Now we’re cooking! I bet we could really improve resiliency and seek times with different data structures, too. B trees?
Or maybe we could keep the flat structure and have some kind of syntax for querying the data… some kind of structured language.
You’ve basically invented OneNote
Crap, I was hoping to invent file systems.
Easy to find saves time
Nobody else immediately thought of this?
Incremental save needs to be Buddha
You can’t just jump to the future, so use this one for the next decade:
Hard drives pre-dated floppy discs by 15 years.
… but platter drives are old hat, SSDs are the new hotness?
That’s the joke.
But hard drives came first.
Well it’s not a very good one.
Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.
I bow to thy argumentation.
I choose a labeled, icon-free button that says
save
This gives Calibre FOSS vibes.
This makes me think “new file”
Timeless. Ubiquitous. Mandatory for all of K-12 and often beyond. Perfect.
A scroll and quill is a pretty good idea, but it’d be better as something more squarish than irregular, I think.
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
A squirrel, as in to squirrel it away
Best answer, but the save button should save the file somewhere random each time on the storage if the icon is a squirrel.
So, like my work computer then
Doesn’t everybody save stuff somewhere in the mess that is their desktop?
Kind of just sounds like OneDrive.
They’ll get it for you if you want it, but you don’t get to know where it’s actually stored (or who else is accessing it).
Sorry for not submitting my homework on time. The squirrel took it away, never to be seen again.
I’ve already seen it replaced in some applications. Don’t like that.
I know it’s “if you have to”, but if I have any choice at all, the floppy icon stays.
What even is the point in changing it? Like sure we don’t use floppies anymore, but it’s a well established symbol for saving.
What did they replace it with?
Ouuh this is a fun one. I find that floppy disks look somewhat similar to SD-cards. Do you think the majority of kids (18 and younger) would recognize SD cards?
I do not!
A safe or vault symbol as an indicator for safe keeping
