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It'll be in good company with dialing, film, photograph, watching the tube, etc. Actually photograph was already out of date, because graph had morphed from "t
by kortex 4y ago
It'll be in good company with dialing, film, photograph, watching the tube, etc.
Actually photograph was already out of date, because graph had morphed from "to write" to making any kind of image. Which itself I believe meant something akin to inscription /engraving.
Actually while photograph may no longer be a graph as in image on a surface, in some ways it's still an image impressed on rocks. Made using lithography. Have we gotten closer to its roots?
- laundermaf 4y ago-graph effectively means recording, storing, so photograph is still very much valid and will forever be.
- hypertele-Xii 4y agoYup, "photograph" is literally "light recording".
- _emacsomancer_ 4y agoYes, both γράφω (>graph) and English write seem to have "scratch, carve" as earliest senses.
- tsimionescu 4y agoDon't forget floppy disks being enshrined as the Save icon - that has to be one of the shortest lives devices to give rise to such an anachronism.
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd the fact that at that point they weren't even floppy anymore. Like 5 or 8 inch were...
- rsync 4y ago"And the fact that at that point they weren't even floppy anymore. Like 5 or 8 inch were..." No, they were all floppy. You are just thinking of the hard plastic case that 3.5" diskettes had. If you crack it open and disassemble it, the actual spinning disk is just as floppy as the 5.25" was. This is as opposed to a "hard" disk which is a hard platter inside a fixed disk.
- someweirdperson 4y agoThe typical icon looks like 3.5", and inside the housing the disk is pretty floppy. In contrast to hard disk platters, which derive their name from the internal mechanism, not the housing properties. Otherwise they would be called storage bricks or similar.
- Ekaros 4y agoI always kinda found that as a copout. Just so to keep using same name.
- tgsovlerkhgsel 4y agoI'm seeing various products switch to Cloud-related save icons, e.g. upload arrows, arrows going into a cloud, etc.
- joenot443 4y agoMaybe it's more complexity than needed, but I'd love to see us settle on arrow-to-cloud meaning "Save any changes" and the floppy icon meaning "Save a copy to my machine."