e-Nagar

September 14, 2008

Symbols of the Past

Filed under: Thoughts — Ankur Aggarwal @ 11:13 pm

I just realized that I don’t remember the last time I used a floppy disc to store data. Yet the universal symbol of Save file is a 3.5 inch floppy.
Soon we will face the next generation of Computer Users who would use this symbol, but would wonder what it means.

Just look around you. You can find so many expressions and symbols that don’t have any bearing with what they signify. Yet we use them. Should like language these symbols, and expressions also be updated? Or should we keep our fingers crossed and hope that one day they would just fade away?

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