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What's so bad about a floppy disk icon? Even if the kids today don't know what that is, they still know the icon means save. We recognize a pawnbroker's symbol
by joeld42 14y ago
What's so bad about a floppy disk icon? Even if the kids today don't know what that is, they still know the icon means save. We recognize a pawnbroker's symbol or a barber pole without knowing where they came from.
- marssaxman 14y agoFunny, I have never before seen or heard of the "pawnbroker's symbol". I looked it up and I guess you mean the three circles hanging from a line. Is it a regional thing, I wonder? Here in the western USA, the only sign I would associate with a pawnbroker is "dingy neon". I wonder if the traditional sign is still used in areas which had pawnbrokers before the invention of lighted signage.
- epo 14y agoCertainly British, and probably European, usage. And yes, it predated electricity by quite some time, in fact said (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnbroker http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawnbroker) to date back to the origins of banking in Italy.