This seems on point. The conversation at the dawn of personal computing would have been: > Where's file X for project A? > On the floppy disk for project A.

This seems on point. The conversation at the dawn of personal computing would have been: > Where's file X for project A? > On the floppy disk for project A. And that more or less continued for most users through the 90s, but then it got confusing to the entry-level user: > Where's file X for project A? > In My Documents, under the folder "Project X". Which, I'd bet, is one of the reasons why cloud-based editors have taken off - the file is "in Google Docs", rather than in a directory hierarchy on the filesystem. GDocs presents me with a more or less flat view of all of my documents. I hate this - I have to go over to Google Drive to organize them - but I can understand how it'd be much more approachable to the average user.