The Cultural Tutor
@culturaltutor · Feb 6, 2023
Have you ever noticed that the save icon is a floppy disk, even though they became obsolete twenty years ago?
That's called a "skeuomorph" - when something new takes on the appearance of what it replaced.
And once you start to look, they're everywhere...
Elon Musk
@elonmusk
I haven’t seen a scroll in ages, but we use that word for computer screens 📜
12:05 AM · February 7, 2023 · 3.2M views
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