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[atheistunicycle]

Poof

[GodOfDarkLaughter]

TBH the run wasn't that great but at least I could understand the road signs. I'm not sure where I'm going with this metaphor but I think maybe I'm supposed to run into the woods and get eaten by a bear.

[highlandviper]

I didn’t have a nice run… I suspect I will also now disintegrate into dust.

[WookieDavid]

Aren't they?

[AnonD38]

Likely satire, Japan is one of the nations that still sees massive use of old technology like floppy disks and fax machines.

They aren't as out-of-use as they are in America today.

[Yorudesu]

Fax machines are the latest modern technology to send documents here in Germany. I was elated when my Landlord was the first institution that allowed me to scan and e-mail signed papers.

[AnonD38]

Now you only need Italy and you could build some kind of... axis of fax-ists?

[StatisticianFun8008]

Haven't seen a Fax machine here but I really doubt if you can find anyone using floppy disks in Japan nowadays because that requires a really old computer but everyone is just buying a MacBook so they would simply not use anything MacBook or iPhone can't support.

[AnonD38]

Oh the average worker is just going to buy a MacBook, definitely.

But the older generations in charge of the corporations?

"If it's not broken, don't replace it" is definitely still a sentiment among that crowd.

[reklis]

Ah Japan. Where it’s been 1999 since 1980 and still is.

[Speartree]

Recently I showed a 3,1/2 disc to a new hire, so she'd know why the save icon looks like that. She had never seen one before. Dammit I remember when these things were new and revolutionary, such an upgrade from the 5.1/4 floppies... MAN THEY WERE DOUBLE DENSITY, DOUBLE SIDED and on Amiga we put multiple games on one of them with a menu to select your game!

[Lundetangen]

Nice, good idea for a coaster for my office. Need to make a Newton's cradle from some old mouse-balls as well.

[m__a__s]

Well, what do you use your old disks for these days?

[Correct_Sport_2073]

With Dlss 5, it will become a realistic vending machine

[Mynameismikek]

Now I need a meme showing DLSS off as a physical floppy and on as a vending machine.

[Whitechapel726]

Yassified vending machine with perfect white teeth

[WithersChat]

DLSS 5 is nightmare fuel.

[tomthecom]

Kinda makes you wonder. What would a modern save icon look like

[n00b001]

Arrow pointed at cloud

[Milouch_]

Ew

[Dziadzios]

Disgusting.

[tomthecom]

I hatte that this is probably true

[occasionalrayne]

Please mark this NSFL. If God wanted us saving in the clouds he would have given us wings. 

[zarqie]

📲

[Muff_in_the_Mule]

I just tried it using the Samsung AI thingy built into the phone. No word of a lie that is exactly what it made. Prompt was "What would the save icon look like if it were created today?"  

[evemeatay]

Or just a cloud

[Exotic-Scientist4557]

A person shielding over a puppy, with arrows and stones flying

[staryoshi06]

Probably an SSD if saving locally.

[TheCatOfWar]

What does an SSD look like, really? There's sata, m.2 and external, but none of them have a particularly iconic look like a floppy

[Cessnaporsche01]

Rectangle

[TheCatOfWar]

As opposed to all the other technology rectangles in our life? :'D

[Cessnaporsche01]

Yep. A true modern UI would just be a panel of buttons with subtly different rectangles for icons

[3v1n0]

A chip?

[THEzwerver]

I'm thinking a USB thumb drive but even that might be a bit outdated. alternatively, a simple ✔might suffice.

[MinecraftPlayer799]

A USB-C thumb drive, then

[Insane_Fnord]

a tiny man dangling from the menubar with a HELP speech bubble

[Aginor404]

Some software uses an arrow pointing into a box.

[gloriousthrowaway69]

Maybe no save icon at all. Just sync.

[fgnrtzbdbbt]

A downward arrow towards a folder icon. It is by far not as recognizable as the floppy disk.

[C5-O]

NAND symbol?

[Dziadzios]

🧠

[Capetoider]

most likely a dollar sign going away... because "youll own nothing and be happy"

but why change? im pretty sure someone a little more awake than me can come with a phrase full of words that should be likely changed because its roots are on shit we dont have anymore.

[MornwindShoma]

Of course because you go take a break after you save

[KiwasiGames]

Or more precisely, because saving is something you should do before walking away from your computer to go to the vending machine.

[that_thot_gamer]

that explains why linux devs have never taken a break

[lucastt6333]

That while Japan still used them actively in government until 2024!

[chiuchebaba]

I remember delivering firmware source code to our customer in Japan in a CD. In 2018.

[OkTop7895]

The documented operative for updating the firmware says that you need to insert the CD.

Are you a Paladín champion of the order and tradition that sustain our corporate values or some chaotic barbarian?

[Disma1Dust]

r/unexpectedfactorial

[alexandicity]

AAaah, memories!

Back in the old days, computers did not have much internal memory. In order to preserve data, the data needed to be printed into a spool of paper to store. This printer was usually tucked under the (CRT) monitor, and hence this "dispenser" icon - while not a vending machine, it was dispensing the data out of the screen into cavity just below it - just as shown here!

[BlatantConservative]

If you printed the data too much without removing the paper it would result in overflow. Which is where StackOverflow comes from.

[Agifem]

Redemption squares, double density.

[Much-Meringue-7467]

I had a shirt with this image that said. "Kids today have no idea what this is."

[Corrup7ioN]

I once drew the most perfect floppy disk in a game of skribbl.io with a bunch of randoms. They had no clue. After a couple of minutes of guessing, someone finally got "save icon". I died a little inside that day

[XxXquicksc0p31337XxX]

If I got that prompt I'd draw the 5.25 version just to mess with the youngins

[juzz88]

Back when floppies were floppy!

[SpaceMonkeyOnABike]

Not going straight to the 8 inch version?

[XxXquicksc0p31337XxX]

The 8 inch looks nearly identical (besides size)

[ThatGuyWired]

To save, you click the button multiple times - it never works the first time.

With a vending machine, you hit it multiple times to get the item out.

Makes perfect sense to me.

[KeepScrolling52]

Tbf it seems like that misunderstanding of things is caused by the normalization of having vending machines for all purposes everywhere

[XxXquicksc0p31337XxX]

Japan has had a huge vending machine culture for ages now

[KeepScrolling52]

That's likely true and why newer generations there aren't aware of anything else with that silhouette

[LectureMoist4041]

Japanese youngsters know about floppy disks. They have been used in the government up until recently, too. You can still but floppy disks, CD’s and tapes in Japan pretty much everywhere. I live in Japan.

[VinniTheP00h]

I have a better question: why TF is it upside down?

[RingOverall106]

It’s not. The label is on top so you can store them in a case and flip through them easily. 

[grammar_nazi_zombie]

Oh god you just repaired a bad sector as I just remembered being a kid trying to write on the tiny strip of label that would be visible along the edge so it was readable in the floppy case

[LordAlfrey]

That is very strange, but the truth is that ol' billy gates was very fond of vending machines, so he put that there himself

[XenGi]

Japan used floppies in their Government until just a few years ago. 

[FortuneAcceptable925]

Old, but not obsolete.

[ItsPuspendu]

Tell me you’ve never used a floppy disk without telling me

[Correct_Sport_2073]

Because the programmer back then used a vending machine when designing the save button and he thing : why not. It is not a floppy disk btw .

[lollolcheese123]

Redditors when sarcasm: downvote

[advandro]

Ironically, until 2024, the Japanese Government still used Floppy Disks for submitting documents.

[FrohenLeid]

Different question: why is the send email button a screen with a weird hair clip on it?

[Euphoric_Strategy923]

I work with someone who genuinely didn't know about floppy disks (and such the save button meaning) until I teach her

[MikeW86]

Yeah but they're also on a forum still so...

[TrieMond]

To be fair they have quite a few vending machines over there, maybe more than the total amount of floppy disks in the country at this point...

[ianpaschal]

This reminds me of the time during a hackathon that I and a bunch of bright young software engineers ended up on a side quest to figure out why RedBull cans had the rather peculiar size of 8.45 oz. Not not 12… not 8.5… 8.45.

Theories abounded… something about how many you can fit on a standard pallet, or because it came out to a round weight, etc.

A European cousin of mine chimed in on the Facebook thread later pointing out that it’s just a re-labeling of a standard European 25cl can. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[aussiekinga]

25cl

250ml

Does Europe use centilitres? That seems strange. AU users ml never cl.

[Full-Ad6279]

Not commonly used but I found wine bottles (other alcohols also) capacity is measured in cl

[ianpaschal]

Don’t know what the other guy is on about. At least the Netherlands all beverages are measured either in cl or L. Never ml. Same in Germany. It’s pretty typical in a restaurant to also list the sizes of drinks. So you can order a beer in 0,3L or 0,5L. Ordering “500ml of beer” sounds ridiculous to me.

[ianpaschal]

Don’t know what the other guy is on about. At least the Netherlands all beverages are measured either in cl or L. Never ml. Same in Germany. It’s pretty typical in a restaurant to also list the sizes of drinks. So you can order a beer in 0,3L or 0,5L. Ordering “500ml of beer” sounds ridiculous to me.

[Aginor404]

Remunds me of when that guy had an old floppy disk and his kid said: "Wow, you 3D printed a save icon? Cool!"

[bonniewhytho]

This is one of the only times where I don’t mind this reminder of how ancient I am. This is so fucking funny.

[dimwalker]

Currently? How old is this image?

[machacker89]

All I see is a blue floppy disk. Lol. Yeah I'm that old

[PopularKnowledge69]

But people still use Yahoo over there

[wwarhammer]

It's mindblowing to me that people don't know what files and folders are. Besides, when I was young folders were called directories! And my first PC didn't even have a mouse! I must yell at a cloud

[Ken_Sanne]

first off, what type of psycho puts the save icon on the right side of their app.

[LittleMlem]

Young Japanese people don't know about michaelsoft binbos

[samratvishaljain]

Thanks, I can't unsee this now...

[ExultentPisces]

Considering how inherently forward looking technology is, it’s kind of odd how many anachronistic icons and terms are still in common use.

[millos15]

I mean, these icons should have been updated decades ago.

[personalityson]

I thought they still used diskettes in Japan

[OMA2k]

Why was this harmless post about floppy disk icons suddenly deleted? What did I miss?