• jarfil@beehaw.org
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    10 months ago

    a skeuomorph of the ribbon some books come with

    And yet, it says “save” right there on the button.

    Don’t miss the larger point: “save” no longer means what “save to a floppy” used to mean. For a lot of people, “save” means to download, or to bookmark, while apps do the old “keep app data for later” by themselves in the background.

    …and it isn’t 2246.

    • nxdefiant@startrek.website
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      10 months ago

      The image is of a website and the context is “save your place”, which is why it’s a bookmark icon: that button creates a bookmark that loads that page back up. The context here never meant “save to a floppy”.