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The floppy disk icon has always frustrated me. Though I still haven't seen a great replacement. Would love to see this list with more thoughtful options to use

• notatoad 14y ago
  the floppy disk icon for saving is a bit of an anachronism, but so is saving. there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of value in re-imagining the icon for an action that is mostly unnecessary in modern apps.
• rapidsnail 14y ago
  There was a discussion on stackoverflow that talks about it http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019573/save-icon-still-a-floppy-disk http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1019573/save-icon-still-a...
• SaigonKick 14y ago
  Why would a perfectly suitable icon ever be replaced? When something else becomes iconic that replaces it.
• blake8086 14y ago
  It's because "saving" is an activity that exists only to appease computer architecture choices. It's not a natural thing to do at all. A more humanistic approach would be to save versioned history of everything you do and then "save" by marking points in time as versions you would like to share with other people or systems.