Floppy disks inspired the ‘Save’ icon. Story by Naa Oyoe Quartey • 2w. ... Today, most people under 25 have never used a floppy disk, yet they instinctively recognise the save icon.

“When I see the ‘save’ icon, I see a floppy disk. But most people just see the ‘save’ icon,” Persky said. “I’ll be here for as long as people continue to want to have these disks.

A teacher has been left feeling "prehistoric" after her Gen Z students asked her what Microsoft Word's save icon represents. The teacher, who is in her late 20s, explained how she asked her class ...

The floppy was "immortalised" as the "save" icon on most computer applications, said the BBC. Now, floppy users are "slowly dying out", and the finite number of disks in the world is "gradually ...

Do you know that funky-looking square icon you click at the top of your toolbar when you want to save a document? That's not some random hieroglyphic. That's a floppy disk, and it wasn't that long ...

The save icon in many contemporary software applications resembles a 3.5-inch floppy disk. However, a generation before that, the 8-inch floppy was the icon of data storage.

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When Sony made the last new floppy disk in 2011, most assumed the medium would die off as a storage format, with only its image living on as a save icon in apps like Word.

Some industries still use floppy disks. ... MARTÍNEZ: Even people who never use a floppy disk see an image of one. A disk shows up as the save icon in many computer apps most of us use every day.

‘Save’ icon “Floppy disks are very reliable, very stable, a very well understood way to get information in and out of a machine,” he says. “Plus, they have the additional feature of not ...