In the UK the image on signs for speed cameras is a old 19th century bellows style camera
this post was submitted on 13 Nov 2025
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If young people anywhere would see floppies, I'm guessing Japan would be more likely than a lot of other places. They're notoriously slow about getting rid of old tech. I think Sony was still making VCRs until 2016, and faxes were ubiquitous even like 10 years ago.
I saw people in the mid 2000s plug in USB floppy drives so they could work with whatever records they still had on floppy. I have no idea why that was easier for them than just putting the files on a USB drive.
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"Look, dad, someone 3D printed a save icon!"
Maybe it's time to change the save icon into a USB drive.
These days I'm starting to see more and more of an arrow pointing down towards a hard drive, a file folder, or an outbox bin. I feel like that's a suitable replacement.
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Because it is hard to put there Jesus. He, same as floppy, died to became a save icon. /s
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Back in my day we extruded our own polyester film, coated it with our own rust and cut them into discs free hand! All that for 170K of storage!
That's a fictitious character.
Actual vending machines are never in this state.
Higher probabilities are:
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