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In hundreds of years, 💾 will probably still be some kind of square or rectangle
The good thing about Unicode emojis, is that systems can render different images depending on the font. Right now, it's already starting to make sense to replace that by the image of either a pendrive or some sort of SD card, with a meaning of "removable device to store relatively small amounts of user data".
What's likely to age much worse, are 💽💿📀.
I don't think there ever can be a better icon. Some are experimenting with a down-arrow pointing to a flat surface, but the floppy fisk is much better.
Thats downloading clearly. Which could be synonymous with saving of course in some way.
Every time you download, you are saving. But not every time you save, are you downloading.
There is an icon that Adobe has with an arrow pointing down into a folder, and I think that works pretty well.
It’s become a symbol that has meaning even if the physical object isn’t used or doesn’t exist any more.
This ⏳ is a symbol that means “time passing” even though the object is rare and obsolete. This ⚽️ is a rare type of soccer ball/football, but it’s the most recognized symbol for the game. This 🚕 isn’t what taxis look like in most places — and many people have never used a taxi; they take Uber.
You know the hourglass was a good lead but then you went overboard.
That football look isn't all that rare, maybe in the US? Same for Uber, I have never taken one and they are definitely not the only "new taxi". Again, maybe in the US this is more the case than anywhere else.
I guess I was stretching it. In my defense I have never seen the black-and-white ball in play at kids’ or professional matches. And there aren’t yellow taxis in my city. Yes — in the US.
The ⏳ is still the most intuitive way to represent "time passing" with a static image. One could maybe use a ⏱️ with the needle blurred to indicate movement... but the beauty of ⏳ is that it needs nothing more, just like ⌛ clearly indicates "the allotted time has passed".
As it should
Preach brother! Preach the truth to these heretics who doesn't even talk about phone icon in their phones is still from the analog days.
The digital age phone icon is just —
/jk
I've used a Zip disk more recently than I've used a manila folder, but we still use those for directory icons (and the Open icon).
The click of death will come for them eventually :p
Optimistic of you, that we will get our shit together and get there. Can't even mask to save millions....
I think it'll happen the other way around. Will get out there at least in some amount because the materials out there and we can mine them. There will be plenty of opportunity in space for people to form their own societies. They'll have to it'll be too difficult to administer from earth not unless we invent faster than light travel and then you'll just do the same thing on a larger scale.
The problem earth has is there's not enough room for everyone to experiment with different societies.
With more room we have more people and with more people we have more innovation eventually someone will invent the replicator or matter synthesis or something and we can stop worrying about resources at which point governments rather cease to have any power.
As it should be. We no longer use floppies so it can exist purely as its own icon and not be confused
It’s the year 2023 and people are still using “X” to represent the number ten.
And “A” to represent the wide open mouth vowel … and …. You get the point.
I wonder what the oldest symbols still in use are? You could probably argue for some of the old language roots for say water that arguably as far back as language itself.
Speaking of water... How often do you actually see a drop of water shaped like a drop? Almost never
Every time it sticks to a vertical surface, like on glass: 💧
This on the other hand, is not how drops fall: ☔
2246 is wayyyy to soon to have Mars Terraformed
Eh, depends on if the singularity hurries tf up.
It used to be a piggy bank and peeps from many countries had no idea what that was supposed to be....
The QWERTY keyboard layout, developed for typewriters in the 1870s, remains the de facto standard for English-language computer keyboards.
We also still "dial" phone numbers, despite the fact that phones haven't had dials for something like half a century.
It only recently occurred to me the literal meaning of floppy vs. hard disk and the distinction between soft-, firm- and hardware.
I thought they were called floppy because of those old ones that were you know... Floppy, in difference to the hard disks inside the tower.
They were called floppy disks because, originally, they were literally floppy while the hard drive was, you know... Hard. 5 inch disks were flexible. 3.5 inch disks were not literally floppy, but still were called "floppy disks" given they were the same thing, but smaller and with more rigidity in the casing that held the magnetic film.
