Gotta go with an even older symbol, the ring buoy.
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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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My vote is just a cylinder. It’s been used for the hard drive activity light for decades already so shouldn’t be too much of a leap. Doesn’t look like any piece of technology.
That's already the symbol of a data store, so if you hit it I'd expect it to bring up the connection configuration
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A circle with a check/tick in it
A tombstone.
Because you think that you have it fixed now to a certain place.
And you think it has got a name plate in front of it.
But you don't want to think about all the dark details of what's really happening down below!
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.
5.25 inch floppy as homage to my childhood. Or maybe 8 inch - but while I lusted after that much space I never used one.
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the final fantasy 7 save crystal. because just look at it. LOOK AT IT!
I'd like to think it won't even be necessary with a save icon as autosave becomes more prevalent. If I'm wrong, one option the icon could be is something like a "snapshot"
Bonfire from Dark Souls, because you don't want to lose your soul by failing to save progress.
Idk, I guess SSDs/flash media is pretty prevalent nowadays, especially in gaming context. That said, it doesn't leave much in the way of a universally identifiable icon, or animation. So maybe an exposed hard disk, with the disk spinning and the arm moving, if you can picture what I'm describing.
The three disks thing that symbolizes database, with a down arrow on top.
Or if we’re really going for the abstract, a knight in armor fighting a dragon with a lady behind him.
Core memory. It's non-volatile.
Bill Gates eventual tombstone.
Can't wait to impress someone by jumping over it in one clear hop.