# Replacement for the 'Save' Icon?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-the-save-icon/509469>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2009, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-the-save-icon/509469 "2009-09-09T20:38:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![EvilTOJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee59a6/32.png) [@EvilTOJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EvilTOJ)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-the-save-icon/509469/21 "2009-09-11T07:07:06Z")

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> [@Meltdown](#):
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> I don’t have an answer for the OP, but it occurred to me that this icon might \*not \* change, and sometime, 20-30 years down the road, that’s all it will be known for. And someone will post to this board (or whatever comparable thing exists then) – “what are the series of squares on the Save Icon supposed to represent?”

This is already happening. Not too long ago my son asked me what that icon meant on the Save button. He’s 12. I dug out a 3.5 floppy and showed him, but I haven’t actually used one except as a boot disk in about 7 years or so.

> [@Telemark](#):
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> And how many people still \*\*dial \*\*a phone? But it works, and we still use it.

> [@Mangetout](#):
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> Phone icons have pretty much kept up with the times though (or maybe trailed about ten years behind). There are push-button phone icons and icons with push buttons on a blocky handset, and mobile phone icons (admittedly, they look like 1980s cellphones, mostly).

Mangetout, Telemark meant we still **dial** a phone, but when was the last time you turned dials on a phone to call someone?

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**Author:** ![Telperion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telperion/32/509_2.png) [@Telperion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperion)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-the-save-icon/509469/22 "2009-09-11T11:40:38Z")

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I’ve seen some games use an arrow pointing down to a CD for “Save” and an arrow pointing up from the CD for “Load”, which would still be current enough since a DVD isn’t visually different.

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**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/replacement-for-the-save-icon/509469/23 "2009-09-11T12:00:08Z")

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How about a cross- Jesus saves.

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