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		hn_throwaway_99 on July 5, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Comeback of Fun in Visual Design I'm actually genuinely curious if young people have an issue with the floppy disk icon. I feel like at this point it's meant "save" longer than it was actually physically in use.

lame-robot-hoax on July 5, 2020 [–]

For the first time, about two weeks ago, I told someone to click the blue floppy disk to save and they said “what’s a floppy disk?”

I’m only in my mid twenties and that even made me almost say “what the hell did you just say?” out loud.

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