I’ve seen clouds ☁️ usedsometimes, usually with an up or down arrow in it, obviously for cloud save, but sometimes confusingly for upload/download.
Likewise, I’ve seen down arrows with a line ⤓ also used recently. (In xed text editor, came with Mint for me.) That also to me is more of a down/upload symbol.
I find the desktop skuimorphism pretty tiring anyway, especially after like 25 years of it. Will computers always and forever be an extension of the office?
I saw or read something recently talking about MS Bob, the ancient origin point for the much maligned font Comic Sans. But what’s lost is what Bob was, why comic sans was made for it. It was a different view of the OS, the home PC, as a digital, animated home. You clicked the wall calendar to open your calendar, the TV to watch video, etc. Its also where clippy came from, originally a dog (who was a clippy option) that acted as a guide and buddy to the new system.
Squeak Smalltalk is also built different. Instead of folders and files everything is objects (years before Java claimed this). If you’ve never tried it, its a very different way to think about computing. Text documents aren’t just files requiring a text editor, they become extensible objects with behaviors attached and definable. Smalltalk blurs the line between user, programmer, creator, and so on. It encourages you to look at the computer and the data on it playfully.
It isn’t just the save icon or “files and folders and desktops” its every part of the computing landscape is constantly being defined by the worst, most boring, money-over-everything people. Computers are so much better when they’re fun.
I’ve seen clouds ☁️ usedsometimes, usually with an up or down arrow in it, obviously for cloud save, but sometimes confusingly for upload/download.
Likewise, I’ve seen down arrows with a line ⤓ also used recently. (In xed text editor, came with Mint for me.) That also to me is more of a down/upload symbol.
I find the desktop skuimorphism pretty tiring anyway, especially after like 25 years of it. Will computers always and forever be an extension of the office?
I saw or read something recently talking about MS Bob, the ancient origin point for the much maligned font Comic Sans. But what’s lost is what Bob was, why comic sans was made for it. It was a different view of the OS, the home PC, as a digital, animated home. You clicked the wall calendar to open your calendar, the TV to watch video, etc. Its also where clippy came from, originally a dog (who was a clippy option) that acted as a guide and buddy to the new system.
Squeak Smalltalk is also built different. Instead of folders and files everything is objects (years before Java claimed this). If you’ve never tried it, its a very different way to think about computing. Text documents aren’t just files requiring a text editor, they become extensible objects with behaviors attached and definable. Smalltalk blurs the line between user, programmer, creator, and so on. It encourages you to look at the computer and the data on it playfully.
It isn’t just the save icon or “files and folders and desktops” its every part of the computing landscape is constantly being defined by the worst, most boring, money-over-everything people. Computers are so much better when they’re fun.