“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009)

Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by SkipperCat on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:10PM (#32369285)

True, and in a similar vein, we still have the floppy disk icon for "save to disk". In 20 years, most users will have never seen a floppy disk in their entire life. Still, the icon will remain.

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Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by johannes1234321 on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:34PM (#32369523)

> Still, the icon will remain.

Not really. The need to "save" is becoming less and less relevant. All changes are synced with the cloud and stored immediately. Even in some programming IDEs the need to save is a lot less common.

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Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by minsight on Saturday August 06, 2022 @12:43PM (#32369590)

> All changes are synced with the cloud and stored immediately

An optimistic outlook, to be sure. Many Dropbox, iCloud, AWS, etc. users who've been burned by their experiences might beg to differ.

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Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by cdbyr on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:37PM (#32370014)

I hope not - for projects with any complexity, knowing I’ve got a checkpoint means I don’t need to think hard about doing risky things. I wonder if Microsoft keeps stats on how many Office users use auto save.

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Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by elidendo on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:25PM (#32369920)

The "call" button on mobile phones is a rotary handset.

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Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by BenjiWiebe on Saturday August 06, 2022 @07:14PM (#32372453)

Or normal corded telephone handset.

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Re:“Cookies are small text files” – what? (2009) by pbhjpbhj on Saturday August 06, 2022 @02:11PM (#32370301)

It's not a floppy, it's a Zip100!

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