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I wonder if even this joke is becoming dated. I don't think I've seen a floppy icon in quite a while.

May I ask what software you use mostly?

I just checked couple of programs I have open on my computer right now and the floppy as save icon is very used still; tortoise svn client, adobe reader, excel, winscp, notepad++, eclipse, all more or less up to date and showing floppy icon.

Hell, if someone put me sitting in front of a program I never used before, and said do this and that and save it, and all I was only seeing was picture of usb stick, or ssd drive, or a cloud, without "Save" written anywhere, I am not sure how long I would be looking for the "save" command :)

This makes me realise that I go days without using anything besides Firefox, Emacs, Spotify, and terminal windows (with many programs running inside of course but they don't have icons).

I've managed to find it in calibre and inkscape, although not in audacity, gimp, firefox, emacs, or transmission.

I haven't had a CD/DVD drive on a computer in 5 years. I think I might have had a floppy drive in the mid 2000s, but it's been a long enough that I can't remember.

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