Reject modernity!
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@futurebird Weelll...
I still remember the 90s when we printed out a wall calendar from Excel 🤭
@futurebird My severely dyslexic daughter is learning to navigate high school with a fill in the dates planner.
I was suuuuuper nervous it would work out (like, at least get one with pre-printed dates when learning to use a planner?) But she diligently filled it out and persevered. It really helped her gain a feeling of control.
I kind of miss the power they gave - I put your little meeting in a book you don't have access to. No electronic snooping telling you I'm available. You don't get to presume upon my time.
@futurebird Okay, you got me. I recognize all but the one in the lower left. I see it is some sort of calendar on top, but is it a type-set type of device?
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Last week I had to explain to my students that the "save symbol" wasn't just some random glyph but that it represented a floppy disk, an object that you would once save a file on. Long ago. In the olden days.
If I told them after about how things were before we invented fire I think they would have believed I was there for that one too.
@futurebird @spacehobo I hadn't thought about it until just now, but I guess icons are like historical snapshots: this was the dominant storage media when graphical user interfaces first appeared on personal computers
@futurebird @spacehobo One of the kids mentioned a classmate, on seeing a (real) floppy, said "Cool! it's a 3D printed version of the SAVE logo on the computer!"
@futurebird if there had to be an updated symbol that means "save" I wonder what it would look like? I thought maybe a piggy bank but nobody uses those anymore either lol. A jar or a check mark maybe.
@futurebird @spacehobo lighting fire to cook the dinosaur you hunted, correct?
At least that's what we did, back in the good old days, when you had a 1% chance of dying during childbirth...
@futurebird @spacehobo
I once had to explain to somebody that the icon that some programming software had for "compiling" or somesuch was not a pie knife, but actually a trowel.
It was, to be fair, a short-lived icon. Not really very clear, though it did make sense if you understood what it was.
As a child I didn't understand that this was a paint bucket. I think it was just too stylized.
I thought it was a graduation hat.
@futurebird True! I remember the old floppies! I used to have some when I got my 1st computer!
@cub80_appleby @futurebird except that one (3.5") isn't particularly floppy on the outside, and you should not crack open the delicious shell 😉
@futurebird it's good to be oldschool but maybe not THAT oldschool ... can we compromise?
Remember the old ways.
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@futurebird what is that and why isn't there halloween candy under the October dates?
I mean, all these look delightful regardless.
But I browse stationery/office supplies/artists' supplies stores just for the fun of it regularly, so I may be biased.
I have a paper "in" and "out" box on my desk and love it.
@futurebird @oddtail Do you put a paper printout of the Windows borg logo in the "Out" box when Microsoft has an outage?
@futurebird I never left them.😉