How long does the "save" icon have left?

[Sunspace]

@Colophon

I’ve always thought it’s ridiculously archaic… a symbol depicting the sort of camera that your grandfather might have used to take a family portrait with a sheet over his head!

The speed camera signs here show a front view of a reasonably-contermporary camera, as it might be if it were taking a picture of you.

[TheLoadedDog]

@racer72

For many years after auto companies switched from generators to alternators, General Motors cars still used idiot lights that said “generator”. The oldest GM car I owned that had a generator light was an 81 Monte Carlo.

My fuel injected car has a carburettor light on the dash.

[Juggler]

@Sunspace

The speed camera signs here show a front view of a reasonably-contermporary camera, as it might be if it were taking a picture of you.

Swedish roadsign for speedcamera or perhaps a rocket ship.

[Colophon]

@Juggler

Swedish roadsign for speedcamera or perhaps a rocket ship.

Or “Your mailbox is falling over”…

[Alma]

@AHunter3

I’ve still got that little guy

BootX Mod

Neat.

[Chessic_Sense]

The floppy disk will long outlast the telephone ring (as in a bell), which will die out in 5-10 years. I wonder why this sign has kids carrying books leather-belt style

[Little_Plastic_Ninja]

@Threadkiller

How long will it take Windows to change the ‘Please wait I’m thinking’ to something other than an hourglass?

Vista (urgh, but it came with my laptop) has a little spinny blue circle like the one in the IE used for “Hang on I’m loading your page”.

[Staggerlee]

@e-logic

It’s interesting that there are so many “icons” in everyday life - e.g. speed cameras and train warnings - that are clearly archaic, yet seem to serve their purpose perfectly.

I wander what the deciding factor is - I’d never really considered the speed camera icon as archaic, but it is indeed a bizarre design for a digital imaging device!

I’d say it’s because technology has moved away from mechanical devices with distinctive parts as distinguishing features towards slimline electronic objects with no moving parts. A ‘bellows’ type camera is quite unique in its look, while a modern camera looks like a a discreet high-tech box.

[Colophon]

@Staggerlee

I’d say it’s because technology has moved away from mechanical devices with distinctive parts as distinguishing features towards slimline electronic objects with no moving parts. A ‘bellows’ type camera is quite unique in its look, while a modern camera looks like a a discreet high-tech box.

But other countries manage to come up with a picture that is recognisably a modern camera. True, it doesn’t look like a speed camera. I wonder why they don’t use a picture of a GATSO type camera, as they’re easily recognisable.

[Staggerlee]

@Colophon

But other countries manage to come up with a picture that is recognisably a modern camera. True, it doesn’t look like a speed camera. I wonder why they don’t use a picture of a GATSO type camera, as they’re easily recognisable.

I do agree; maybe then it is a matter of old-fashioned signifiers being so eccentric as to be more noticeable than their modern counterparts. For example, the handshank from the middle ages used for clutching at straws… oh…