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They Died To Become The Icon Of Saving

Programming Webdev Frontend

24 days ago 67.1K views 0 shares

They Died To Become The Icon Of Saving

OMG, the AUDACITY of this floppy disk! Sacrificed itself to digital oblivion so we could have that little square "save" button in every application EVER MADE. The DRAMA! The LEGACY! Meanwhile, Gen Z programmers be like "why is the save icon a weird 3D-printed version of the Minecraft save button?" TRAGIC. These magnificent 1.44MB beasts carried our code through the dark ages when a single high-res image today would require a STACK OF THESE PLASTIC WARRIORS REACHING TO THE MOON. Pour one out for the OG data heroes - they didn't just save our files, they saved our SOULS. 💾

Explained To Gen Z Why The Save Button Looks Like That

Hardware Webdev Programming Frontend

3 months ago 100.9K views 0 shares

Explained To Gen Z Why The Save Button Looks Like That

Oh the existential crisis of realizing kids think floppy disks are just weird 3D-printed save icons! That 3.5" diskette in the image—with its mighty 1.44MB capacity—was once cutting-edge tech that could store approximately 1/3000th of your average smartphone photo. Back then, we'd physically insert our data into computers like barbarians instead of summoning it from the mystical cloud. The real kicker? That little plastic square outlived its usefulness decades ago but somehow achieved digital immortality as an icon. It's like using a hieroglyph emoji—nobody's seen the real thing in ages, but we all know what it means!