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A hard disk will buy us some time but 1) everybody knew how a floppy disk is made inside because you can peek inside the opening and see the disk. I think not
by pmontra 4y ago
A hard disk will buy us some time but
1) everybody knew how a floppy disk is made inside because you can peek inside the opening and see the disk.
I think not everyone saw a photo of an open hard disk.
2) Almost nobody born today will hold a hard disk in their hands. We'll be back to the floppy disk problem soon.
The correct solution should be an icon about the very idea of persisting data or making it safe.
- midoridensha 4y ago>I think not everyone saw a photo of an open hard disk. Maybe not, but it does have the word "disc" (misspelled "disk"), so I think most computer users (and I mean people who would actually use a "save to disk" button; most mobile-only users probably never do now) would make the connection. >Almost nobody born today will hold a hard disk in their hands. We'll be back to the floppy disk problem soon. Depends on your definition of "soon". Seems to me my solution would buy us another 20 years at least. >The correct solution should be an icon about the very idea of persisting data or making it safe. That's much easier said than done. If there was an easy way of depicting this with a graphic icon, I think it would have been done in the last 40+ years. This thread, and surely countless like it over the years in various places, show that no one seems to have any good ideas for a simple graphic icon to express this concept.