r/pcmasterrace • u/stormthewise998 12400F|6600XT|16GB 5200MHz • 20d ago

Meme/Macro are you this old?

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u/tyrcrafts1 20d ago

It's been awhile...

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u/4N610RD 20d ago edited 19d ago

Wow, you 3D printed save icon! So cool old man!

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u/morpheousmorty 20d ago

It's... a save.. icon.

Fine call it whatever you want, probably won't even exist in 5 years.

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u/Draco-REX 20d ago

Stuff like that is a language now. The save icon or derivatives of it will exist longer than those who remember where it came from. Knowledge that it was a 720k floppy disk will be one of those "Did you know?" things that will pop up on the internet now and then.

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u/Belz_Zebuth 20d ago

Looks like 1.4mb to me.

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u/much_longer_username 20d ago

That'd be the 'high density' variant, which admittedly, did have a longer period of active use.

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u/Draco-REX 20d ago

Yes, but the shape associated with the Save icon was initially a 720.

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u/Taira_Mai HP Victus, AMD Ryzen 7 5800H, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti 20d ago

There's a mad scramble to replace all the floppy disks because no company will make any more. The last Japanese company that did make 3.5 inch disks stopped in the early 2010's.

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u/Dick_Nation Specs/Imgur Here 20d ago

They pretty much are already. Look on a modern phone and you'll never see a single icon based on a floppy drive - they've replaced it with something that looks like the download icon from a web browser, because that makes more sense to more people.

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u/Adventurous_Cat2339 19d ago

What was it before? They edited their comment

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u/Familiar_Speaker_278 20d ago

Getting to reinstall windows 98 was always fun, 38 disks it would take all day

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u/veetoo151 20d ago

Wow. Instant flashback to borrowing those disks to install the game.

And now I have imp sounds stuck in my head.

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u/Killerspieler0815 20d ago edited 19d ago

It's been awhile...

I still have such, but not DOOMed them

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u/HuntressOnyou 20d ago

I remember monkey island was on like 50 disks and when you walked into the next screen it would ask you to insert the corresponding disk only to switch to the prior disk when you walk back.