The browser version of Office 365 frustrates me the most with this, their autosave works well but it is impossible to “save as” anything. They just allow to download an xlsx copy, and I have to open that in LibreOffice to convert to CSV or whatever is relevant. And of course no save icon to download the xlsx because someone decided a skeumorphic floppy disk is too incongruent with the cloud.
I’m sorry if I came off as a bitter asshole (I guess I kinda am), it’s just that this common sentiment feels patronizing because “outdated” ≠ “obscure”. Like, pagers I would say are actually obscure because they were more of a gimmick than a truly mass-market product, but floppies and CDs were in such wide circulation for such a long time that I’d expect a teenager to recognize one at a glance even if they have never personally used that technology.
So are fax and floppies for really old processes and equipment, but pagers are not visually/culturally iconic and most people never had one so most people born after 2000 wouldn’t recognize them at a glance unless they worked in a specific field that uses severely outdated tech. Hell, there are probably still industrial machines in production somewhere that take punch cards.
The browser version of Office 365 frustrates me the most with this, their autosave works well but it is impossible to “save as” anything. They just allow to download an xlsx copy, and I have to open that in LibreOffice to convert to CSV or whatever is relevant. And of course no save icon to download the xlsx because someone decided a skeumorphic floppy disk is too incongruent with the cloud.
I’m sorry if I came off as a bitter asshole (I guess I kinda am), it’s just that this common sentiment feels patronizing because “outdated” ≠ “obscure”. Like, pagers I would say are actually obscure because they were more of a gimmick than a truly mass-market product, but floppies and CDs were in such wide circulation for such a long time that I’d expect a teenager to recognize one at a glance even if they have never personally used that technology.
Huh, I thought pagers were still a thing in medicine/hospitals.
So are fax and floppies for really old processes and equipment, but pagers are not visually/culturally iconic and most people never had one so most people born after 2000 wouldn’t recognize them at a glance unless they worked in a specific field that uses severely outdated tech. Hell, there are probably still industrial machines in production somewhere that take punch cards.