The idea that human society will make it to 4269 as well as the old Twitter logo at the bottom really date this one. 😥
People probably said similar at the fall of every empire throughout history. People will endure and build anew. Life finds a way.
Most other empires didn't have the ability to destroy the ecosphere of the planet they lived on.
The modern empires can do it not just on purpose using nuclear weapons, but also accidentally through climate change.
Life will find a way, but will civilization? And will the dominant species still be humans?
It's unlikely that people will go extinct, but we're perfectly capable of creating a Mad Max or Fallout type of world.
There's KDE software (might be a Linux-wide thing, idk) that changed it to a down arrow pointing to a rectangle. I don't like it. I really don't fucking like it.
Me neither, it looks like it should mean "download".
Those icons probably come from the default breeze dataset
That's not true, this is the current version on Arch and it's a floppy.
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The Floppy Disk is Computer Jesus. They both died to become the universal symbol of salvation. ;)
You can still buy new 3 1/2" disks. And usb connected drives are available to read and write them. So they ain't dead.
But I do pour one out for the 5 1/4". The OG of common portable storage. It was the floppist of the floppies.
There's some additional nostalgia attached to calling them with the simple fractions as opposed to the decimal ones, even if they mean the same thing. HDDs for example are still around and I've always seen their form factor as 3.5", not 3 1/2".
My favourite are the kids excited that their mom 3D printed the save icon when she showed them a floppy disk.
Which never happens yet everyone repeats it as if it's a common occurrence.
I like the joke, but let's not pretend this is something that happens.
My wife coaches high school field hockey. She told me how one day she overheard them talking about how one of them lost their work on a homework document and had to start over.
One of the girls said "you just gotta get in the habit of clicking the blue square", which the others were confirming is the thing to do. So then my wife asks "blue square, what do you mean" and another clarified "the save button".
They had no idea what a floppy disc was
I had to explain the save button to my 9 year old about a week ago. And then I found myself explaining what a floppy disk was. Tonight I'll ask him if he knows what that is a picture of. I'll be impressed if he remembers. If he fails the check, imma gonna launch into a lecture on boot disks, games, and batch files. Wish me luck!
I'd be surprised if using these kinds of point-and-click GUIs was still common in 2244 years, as opposed to some kind of language- or thought processing. Then again, people are still writing with pen and paper sometimes, despite all the digital advances.
Pen and paper is still the superior way to make your first draft and anyone who disagrees is wrong.
I hate hand writing and drawing.
My drafts are computer aided.But in case of emergency, I have muscle memory.
Do you imagine how wonderful Lemme could be if everyone drafted theirs posts on paper, prior to clicking "Send"?
Well, pen & paper was modern 2 kya.
I've seen a growing number of programs that use an arrow pointing towards a picture of a computer or hard drive for "save* and an arrow pointing away from it for "load" and I feel like that's very graceful skeuomorph to shift to that might hold up for longer (although it breaks if it's talking about cloud save, but replace the picture of a computer with picture of a cloud and you're back in business I suppose)
I've seen those being used as download and upload but not for saving.
Downloading is a type of saving
Skeuomorphism is the word your looking for, its why your digital cameras still make a mechanical click sound even through there isnt a mechanical shutter
Maybe, just maybe, someday it gets updated to an SD Card.
The idea of hover cars have always been so silly to me. Yes let's waste energy on counteracting gravity instead of just using a wheel lmao
And designing your hover trtactor in the style of 2000 tractors is as much symbolism as the floppy disc.icon.
Path dependency
Also the phone app icon still resembles one of those old banana units, even though phones haven't looked that way in 25+ years.
so shall it be
