Time for a new save icon?

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I wonder how a save icon would look like if designed by a young generation :wink:

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@ Rob - Maybe a big red button would do. The kids never do what they ought to, maybe that lures them into clicking it …

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We’ve come far in a short space of time. I think the 2.5 inch floppy was made in my lifetime. I remember the 5 inch one as well.

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I can offer an 8" disk, those were NOT floppy they were hard ones and we used them for booting and backing up purposes if I remember correctly …

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I have never had the pleasure of using an 8" “Floppy” drive in real life. I had so many 5.25" disks, especially once I got my C64 disk drive, that I needed one of these [url]https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Squareholepunch.jpg[/url] to help my cheap-as nature achieve higher density of storage (at the higher risk of failure rates)

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In the modern world you don’t need a save button.
Everything is synced into the cloud instantly. ???

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My big, wordy, personal ‘save’ manifesto: “Save” is an antiquated concept and one that is dying and should die. And so is the concept of knowing the location of data. No user should need to know ‘where’ their data is. That includes memory vs persisted storage, and the location of that persisted storage. And the security of your data should be an orthogonal concept relative to it’s storage locality (that is, security should be imposed on the data and not rely on security of the storage media or site).

Everything you type should be secured at the point of origin and persisted aggressively but asynchronously and silently moved around and replicated for purposes of accessibility and robustness. Your identity is your connection to your data. The data is everywhere, but not visible without your explicit grant.

Now, clearly, there are missing pieces of infrastructure today (primarily security and identity), and variations in storage cost mean that, unless you have unlimited funds, sometimes ‘where’ still matters.

I have had a years-long love affair with the concept of internet-scale distributed hash table (DHT) storage for personal data. Secure and shred your data so that no one person, vendor or entity has the entirety of your data, and the loss of a single machine or even a big piece of the internet does not mean the loss of your data. No meaningful portion of your data comes into existence again until you recover the shreds from the DHT, and then it only exists fleetingly and local to your needs. Data can never be deterministically deleted, but it can become permanently irretrievable.

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@ mcalsyn - Well since energy can’t be created and destroyed, then technically your data came to you from some other part of the universe, and when you were done with it, it returned from whence it came. Therefore, data is never really saved or deleted but is more like an old friend who comes to visit and moves on.

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@ Mr. John Smith - Uh oh. He brought the Physics.

[url]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/purity.png[/url]

(Computer Science is somewhere on that scale, either to the left of Sociology or right next to Math, depending on how well you do it)