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The first Macintosh did not have anything else than floppy disk to save to. No hard drive. It was an obvious metaphor. Also, in those days computers were usual
by mongol 6y ago
The first Macintosh did not have anything else than floppy disk to save to. No hard drive. It was an obvious metaphor.
Also, in those days computers were usually not networked. If you wanted to transfer a file, you saved it to removable media.
Commonly a floppy.
Your thought was "I need to save my file to this floppy here and give it to Jenny". It was a very obvious icon, top of mind, for people working with computers in those days.
- the_other 6y agoThere's a lot wrapped up in that icon: - rendering a physical embodiment of the digital work - more specifically, making a thing you can hand to another person so they can use it - also specifically making a thing you can physically store somewhere "safe" - a distinction between temporary and permanent versions of the digital content Today we don't use physical media for any of these things. Display, exchange and long-term storage can all be accomplished without going to the physical realm. How else might we represent this graphically?