Icons of the past that we cant stop using

Priyanka Agrawal

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Circling Thoughts

3 min readFeb 6, 2013

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This one simply tops the list. I keep wondering if our kids will really ever know what this stands for. I can imagine in the 31st century some archeologist will discover this floppy drive buried somewhere and run and tell world what this stands for. Also, coming to think of it this was a tool for data transfer not saving.

2. Email

Seriously people, school assignments have changed from ‘write a letter…’ to ‘write an email…’ . They don’t send letters in those envelopes now. I think it will be a good idea to take kids on a visit to the post office once in a while just so they are updated.

3. Contact

Right, these still do exist but I guess in extremely tasteful colonial houses. I would like to own one of these beauties for the sheer joy of the rotating dial and the sound it makes while returning back but sadly this is not the most common instrument of communication anymore.

4. Search

I wonder if James bond still uses this one to spy around unless of course he is looking for ants or flies. Why don’t we just accept the supremacy of ‘search = google’ and start using google as the search icon.

5. Announcement

I really really really wanna speak into one of those. Where can we find it?? Everyone loves making announcements like this right? Remember the Bollywood movie promotions in earlier days…that’s when this started and ended, I guess!

6. Script

My dear developer friends, have patience. One day we will wipe out all traces of this one. Seriously, this doesn’t have any reference to context at all. This is an insult to the developer community.

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