They Died To Become The Icon Of Saving

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They Died To Become The Icon Of Saving

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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. 💾

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