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> A clipboard means I take some text from a buffer and write it out? Really? A pair of scissors means I copy text into a buffer? A sheet of paper is a file? Why
by wingerlang 10y ago
> A clipboard means I take some text from a buffer and write it out? Really? A pair of scissors means I copy text into a buffer? A sheet of paper is a file? Why?
I don't think either of these are as bad as you make them out to be. No one thinks in terms of buffers. With a scissor you can cut away stuff (and put it somewhere else) so it makes sense. A sheet of paper is where you write or draw things, so it makes sense.
Clipboard, well they are portable and you can make notes on them and then write them down somewhere else. Kinda-ish makes sense.
Floppy maybe doesn't make sense unless you know what it is.
- wyattpeak 10y ago> Floppy maybe doesn't make sense unless you know what it is. Even if you know what a floppy is it's not that obvious without a bit of context. People today seem to analogise floppies to USB keys, devices to move data. The idea that you would save a file directly to portable storage, rather than just to the hard drive, is somewhat alien.
- oneweekwonder 10y ago> The idea that you would save a file directly to portable storage, rather than just to the hard drive, is somewhat alien. But it will live with as for a very long time as the save icon.