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		poopsicle on May 13, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Noun Project – Icons for Everything What is the "thing" that directly represents save? A floppy disk? Yeah no abstraction there. Moron.

Turing_Machine on May 13, 2017 | [–]

Yes, a floppy disk. The physical thing that you save data on. More correctly, the physical thing that you used to save data on when the icon was created.

"Moron", indeed.

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