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> What is the "Archive" icon even supposed to depict? The lower part of a printer, with a sheet of paper sticking out?

it's a bankers box (a cardboard box for files) which I guess is not a thing one sees often now? skeuomorphism doesn't work on a digital generation because all the real world touchpoints for information have been replaced by digital

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Those boxes seem to be mostly a US thing, and the author is Swedish (or at least the domain is).

But then they put some lines on the side for no reason and now it looks like a printed sheet.

That's the labeling put on bankers boxes so you know what's in them when they are stacked on shelves.

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