teenagers, some time after we're an interplanetary species, looking at a "synchronizing data" notification: "hey, why did they make the save icon a cumulus cloud?"

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rip good ol' 3M diskette, you join the ranks of historically valuable tech, high above the cesspool of historically trash tech like the zip drive

it had dawned on me only now that floppy disk is dead 🪦 😢

it was bc the vending machine metaphor was too confusing

it was bc the vending machine metaphor was too confusing 

https://www.distractify.com/p/save-icon-vending-machine

Related somehow: This is a great article (and podcast episode if you prefer the audio) about symbols and time.

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semiotics is wild, the only thing I can think offhandedly that has survived at least 4,000 years is that people still think fart jokes are funny: https://www.businessinsider.com/historians-10-oldest-jokes-in-history-1900bc-2019-7?op=1

Related somehow: This is a great article (and podcast episode if you prefer the audio) about symbols and time.

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

Probably the other way around. They are on a planet with atmosphere they look at the sky and think "Wow, man, look at these things on the sky, they look like synchronizing data"!

internet prophets were crucified so you can commit your sins to remote upstream

Which cloud Miss? I have known the save as disk icon

Imagine explaining floppy disks or email inboxes to someone who's grown up on Mars

Then they get the “it’s because our ancestors were so extra” reply😂

I actually never thought to ask until now

why is it a cumulus cloud tho?

even memory  cards  dont exist anymore

sighhhhh