When was the last time you had a computer with a floppy disk drive? Five years? Six? If you’re a Mac user, it could be ten years or more. Safe to say the floppy disk has been a thing of the past for ...

Do you want to see something that makes my blood boil every time I see it? Here, take a look: This is the icon that's on the Save button in Microsoft Word 2010. A floppy disk. Seriously? Did it fall ...

Audie Cornish talks with Austin Carr, design and technology writer at Fast Company, about Apple's use of skeuomorphic design. It's when an object retains the look of something old and familiar like ...

If you’ve ever clicked the little square “Save” button on your computer, you’ve used a relic of the past without even ...

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The save icon is a floppy disk, now gone for years. Carbon copy for emails, and reel to reel tapes for voice mail icons. Why do we still use these? That was the rant from Scott Hanselman in “ The ...