I believe this post to be the definitive authority on the subject of dead icons ... ;-) http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3117/save-icon-is-the-floppy-disk

I believe this post to be the definitive authority on the subject of dead icons ... ;-) http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3117/save-icon-is-the-floppy-disk-icon-dead http://ux.stackexchange.com/questions/3117/save-icon-is-the-... seriously - there's some good points made here, including: "The floppy disk icon is an idiom, not a metaphor. It doesn't matter that we're no longer writing files on 1.44MB 3.5" disks. It doesn't matter that many users don't even know what a floppy disk is. What matters is that users associate the icon with saving." -- Patrick McElhaney