[OSX-Users] Re: Mystery Icon

[Les A Carr]

On 28/03/2011 12:43, "Hugh Glaser" <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

>Surely you got this Les?
>It's a floppy.
>http://www.google.co.uk/images?&q=floppy+disk

Sigh. Yes, I get it cos I'm old enough to remember when 5 1/4" floppy
disks were an innovation. So a 3.5" disk still looks shiny and modern to
me - BUT WHY ARE WE STILL USING THEM as an image of persistent cloud
storage in Google Docs. Isn't it just time that we moved on before we
embarrass ourselves in front of the new students?
--
Les




>Or a stiffy, as Pieter and I used to say, because they were the first
>floppies that weren't.
>
>On that page, an Apple version:
>http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.instructables.com/image/F
>JT64G5FE1M4UM2/Floppy-Disk-Notepad.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.instructables.
>com/id/Floppy-Disk-Notepad/&usg=__eGFeBN2_gFxf_pO8KNdxcgvccGc=&h=420&w=560
>&sz=15&hl=en&start=27&sig2=b-QJmsxOiHC2QOge2x0ctw&zoom=1&tbnid=Uppv8ev53oY
>JFM:&tbnh=100&tbnw=133&ei=mXOQTeGwFYSKvQP-0bWyDQ&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfloppy
>%2Bdisk%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DX%26rlz%3D1G1GGLQ_ENGB321%26biw%3D1056%2
>6bih%3D687%26tbs%3Disch:1&um=1&itbs=1
>
>On 28 Mar 2011, at 10:53, Leslie Carr wrote:
>
>> Can anyone help identify this mystery icon? It appears in a number of
>>popular applications, but its design is lost to the mists of time.
>> 
>> http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/what-is-this-mystery-icon.html
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
>
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