Save Me

An interesting thing about computers is that early OS designers based a lot of features on real-world objects: desktops, file folders, and recycling bins. And when it came to representing the save function, it made perfect sense to use the image of a floppy disk, as that was often what you’d be saving to. But what happens if we lose that real-world point of reference?

With floppy disks rarer than hen’s teeth these days, younger people have no idea what that icon is meant to represent; they’ve never inserted a floppy disk into a drive before. So if the young people in your life think they know everything about technology, you can amaze them with your knowledge of what the Save icon actually is.