I've seen HDD icons as a replacement for the floppy.
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I choose a labeled, icon-free button that says save
A dark souls campfire/site of grace
Given the impermanence of any storage medium today, I'm thinking a puff of smoke would convey the sentiment with the right level of user expectation.
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A rotary pay phone powered by a steam engine.
Gotta go with an even older symbol, the ring buoy.
But I like the floppy disk save symbol
Go older: a punch card being inserted into a tray
I think the download icons will become synonymous with saving. It's functionally the same, move thingy to a location on your computer.
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Ice cube, because you're freezing it in whatever working state you're in.
I wonder if we would would really "expect" a new safe icon. Most modern software has auto-saving. Games for example often just use a spinning circle to indicate it's saving. Word and google docs just say "don't worry, we're continuously saving your work" when you hit Ctrl + S.
I imagine if you want to save something locally you have the downward arrow for downloading, or some other icon for moving and copying files.
Bill Gates eventual tombstone.
Can't wait to impress someone by jumping over it in one clear hop.
