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Giulia 🥛 
This is making me die of old age
Bullet With Butter Tart Wings@ActuallyAubrey it's because you of in the file of out the can drink the can
Szabó Em, Enigma He-Art Director 
@ActuallyAubrey i-dont-feel-so-good-mr-stark.mp4
Alexia 
@ActuallyAubrey this is really funny but also sad because it goes to show what context is lost with flat design 💔
BSM (sw.s) 🇨🇭@alexia @ActuallyAubrey just simple: General knowledge sends its regards.
Leo Dumas@ActuallyAubrey wait until some of them begin to treat floppy disks as a conspiracy theory
Primo@ActuallyAubrey despite having had diskettes I somwhow needed the save icon being one pointed out for me.
whanti6 (Vikriti)
@ActuallyAubrey This meme first went viral half a decade ago now...
groxx@vikriti @ActuallyAubrey and it's still going strong. that's how you know it's a good one ඞ
Passoca Witch 
@ActuallyAubrey ashes to ashes dust to dust
Kim Possible 
@ActuallyAubrey oh wow.
I'm waiting for a new generation to question why we say "hang up" instead of "end call."
Ben Aveling
Really Lazy Bear 
@ActuallyAubrey im23andthisisdepressing
Just let 'em wonder, I guess. They'll figure it out. After all, "kids are smart," lol
ghostdancer
Cluster Fcku@ghostdancer @ActuallyAubrey this chess game is an absolute gem in story telling and animation.
@clusterfcku @ActuallyAubrey Pixar in their prime storytelling. It's sweet, funny, a pinch of sad. ❤️
Sarah W@ActuallyAubrey
This reminds me of an anecdote about a child finding some old disks. "Mummy, why have you 3D printed the save icon?"
This reminds me of an anecdote about a child finding some old disks. "Mummy, why have you 3D printed the save icon?"
Raymond Russell@ActuallyAubrey
You should feel even older, I am sure this has been doing the rounds for a couple years, soz. 😃
You should feel even older, I am sure this has been doing the rounds for a couple years, soz. 😃
Nazo@ActuallyAubrey Ah crap...
(Matthew)=> 🏳️🌈🇿🇦🎮💻📖@ActuallyAubrey Limits of skeuomorphism and metaphor. Hard drive icons will likely go the same way in a few years as they're phased out in favour of SSDs. Heck, I only found out why it's called the C drive the other day, and considering we don't use floppies and stiffies anymore, most of us won't see an A or B drive in our computers again.
[ちょろい]² hannah 
@[email protected] want to feel older? the post is from 2019 
Jos Dingjan@ActuallyAubrey Even worse: the save icon is derived from the _new_ format.
Imma crumble to dust here.
UkeleleEric@happydisciple Is the old format you were referring to 5 inch or 8 inch floppy? Or the big removable hard-drive caddys shaped like a load of plates in a stack, or punch cards...
@UkeleleEric I’ve only ever owned computers with 5 1/4 inch as oldest tech, but worked with 8 inch. Punch cards were before my time.
@happydisciple I worked with 5 1/4 myself, and some of the newer ones later. Also cassette tape with my ZX Spectrum...
@UkeleleEric My best mate in school had an MSX, and my uncles a C64 with tape drive, but that was before we had a computer ourselves.
Oyu F'ka@happydisciple @UkeleleEric Back in the early 80's, I regularly used punch cards and ticker tape to load up the OS on a DEC PDP11 mini* computer, data was stored on rigid, plastic encased 12" disks.
*Mini equated to about the size of a double wardrobe, lol!
Also used the all steel Commodore 32 with calculator keys/build in tape deck/40 column screen.
Moved to a really hi-tech environment using 8" floppies, (Tandy computers), running Xenix multi user system, (Microsoft's version of Unix)
@Oyu_Fka @happydisciple my college had a 'minicomputer', think it was a PDP. Punch cards, though I know of them, was before my time.
Terence@UkeleleEric @Oyu_Fka @happydisciple
I attended University of Michigan for engineering in the mid 80’s. We had to learn FORTRAN on the mainframe. I recall a “mount tape” command that sent a computer lab tech off to find a numbered 9-track reel and mount it on the drive so that you could save or restore your work.
But my thoughts exactly. I still think of 3 1/2” floppies as “the new ones”.
@NM8A @UkeleleEric @happydisciple Yes...those 3.5" floppies blew my mind - 1.44Mb of read/write storage! Bleeding edge tech, lol!
@Oyu_Fka @UkeleleEric @happydisciple
I think I remember something in the press at the time to the effect “what will you ever do with a box of ten of these?”
I think I remember something in the press at the time to the effect “what will you ever do with a box of ten of these?”
@NM8A @UkeleleEric @happydisciple Tbh, I'd sooner have them than 'the cloud' being the only form of storage, lol!
Miro Collas@happydisciple I worked with punched cards. [looks around for his walker]
Anthony David@Miro_Collas @happydisciple @UkeleleEric
I loved the feel and rhythm when I was on a coding transcription roll. Such tactile machines.
Kevin Lyda@ActuallyAubrey One of my youtube trash watches is movie reactions. It's kind of interesting seeing people coming at movies from a totally different perspective. Today I saw an Alien reaction where the reactor noted that people in old movies had weird accents.
I watched some retirement videos after that.
cleware there any good retcons? willing to adopt them
PhosphenesA robot face eating your data?
Toni Aittoniemi@ActuallyAubrey I wonder what the save icon will evolve into? 🤔
@gimulnautti @ActuallyAubrey A cloud icon
Kir@ActuallyAubrey I have heard of youngsters seeing a floppy disc and saying that it looks just like a save icon...
We've found our adult website filter.
@ActuallyAubrey This is not old age, this is lack of historical education or curiosity.
Punched cards and paper tape were before my time, but I know what they are.
Why are air conditioners rated in tons, by the way? They used to use ice for cooling, and you needed tons per day for a large building.
Laurens@ActuallyAubrey You should. That meme is from 2009.
Hubert Figuière@ActuallyAubrey yet, the Japanese Government in 2024:
Kinene⭐🐻
Eric McCorkle@ActuallyAubrey wait until one of the kids sees an actual floppy, and goes "oh is that a 3D printed save icon"
seb@ActuallyAubrey top-tier bait tbh
samiamsam
Smol Rhi, Big Mood@ActuallyAubrey I felt this post in my hips
CynBlogger™️Resists Tyranny!
Wieke@ActuallyAubrey so I am an antique. Writing little computer programs in dos. Loading computer programs with tapes. Connecting your computer to the internet by calling in. Huge flexible floppy disks. Now not even enough storage capacity for 1 digital foto taken with your phone.
lbcp 🦖 
Robots can be gay deal with it@ActuallyAubrey ... I have that disk on hand.
Love grape flavored plastic.
Len@ActuallyAubrey the real question is: "why use a floppy disk to mean exclusively 'save' when you can both save to and load from a floppy disk?"
Marty B@ActuallyAubrey I told the storage locker kid, as I move boxes out of our basement into storage, that I found my old Palm Pilots on a shelf. He was 25 or so - never heard of them. Long explanation about the world before smartphones. Felt very old.
Strider_UK - Slava Ukraini
Theriac@[email protected]
But they don't seem to be about asking about the pot lid appearing on ads and signs
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It's all down to tech in Sazae-san stopping around the early 70s.
But they don't seem to be about asking about the pot lid appearing on ads and signs
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It's all down to tech in Sazae-san stopping around the early 70s.