What even is a good alternative save icon these days?! This is the only save icon I know.

Edit: lmao I’ve gotten so many replies! I love y’all.

Ironic, since Japan is one of the last holdouts requiring the use of floppy drive for use in government processes.

Fuck Excel and Microsoft for tying auto save to OneDrive.

Programs using this icon should restrict their file size to 1.44 MB. Everything else is just false advertising.

Probably just ironic humour.

People in Japan still have access to search engines and have brains.

I'm 20 btw.

The other day I got a press release about disaster preparedness for grade school kids.

It made mention of teaching kids how to use a battery powered radio to get information. And it suddenly struck me that my 8 year old nephew likely has never even SEEN an FM radio, much less would know how to tune one to a specific station.

Shit like that makes me feel reaaaaaaallllly old…

Propaganda here boys. Japanese aren't having kids, there is no youth.

The only writing icon that matters is the drumming gif. It doesn’t even make sense anymore but it was so unbelievably perfect for the time.

Hang on didn’t the Japanese government only like last year decide to stop using floppies?

If you want to make a greybeard feel old, grab one of the old floppies that they still have in a filing cabinet, hold it up and say, "Hey look, someone 3D printed a save icon!"

Why not this?

You think it's bad that the save icons have floppy disks?

A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for "database" (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it's running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system

Every time you save a file in Microsoft, your credit card is charged $.50

Satire no?

It is only mid 2020s and people already asking such questions. Imagine late 2030s or even 2040s.

I once had what I thought was a friend, but who was definitely a teacher. He joked that he brought a floppy disk to his school and his students asked who had 3d printed a save icon.

If young people anywhere would see floppies, I'm guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They're notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.

I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.

In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera