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Makes you wonder, when will the floppy be discarded as the icon for 'save'?

• wardrox 16y ago
  Maybe when something comes along to replace "save"? With the steadily increasing amount of software that auto-saves without you noticing, maybe soon we just wont need to "save" anything. It'll just happen.
• bergie 16y ago
  GNOME has been using a picture of a hard drive for quite a while now: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-document-save.svg http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gnome-document-save.s... Though that may also become antiquated with SSDs and cloud storage :-)
• maguay 16y ago
  There's only a handful of apps on iOS that include a save button, and even of those that do include one, DocsToGo is the only one I can think of that uses a floppy for a save icon. It might be gone before you know it ... though I'd guess you'll still see it in Windows in 2020 or beyond ;)
• brc 16y ago
  My guess is never. The universal train icon for signs has a funnel and a cow-catcher, and it's a long time since a train looked anything like that. Same goes for the universal sign for telephone - nothing like a modern cordless handset. We can already seen this in action as the icon for 'mp3' on signs looks like a first-gen ipod. Already no players (even ipods) look like that, but I think it will stick around for a long time. Some things get stuck as icons and the original meaning is lost with the sands of time. Once the icon is assigned to a meaning for most people, it sticks. There's no reason to update the icon, even if it no longer represents the object, because everyone agrees on the meaning.