Unless there was a stealth edit, that's a search for "747 floppy disks" which is nothing but news articles about this specific thing...

A buddy's son exclaimed "oh, cool, you 3d printed the save icon" on seeing a floppy for the first time.

That's an old joke, not something that your buddy's son actually said.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/10/24/16505912/floppy-disk-3d-...

indeed, however some artistic license should be allowed in order to improve readability, no?

That raises the question: are there any proposals for replacing the diskette icon? At what point are we going to make the change?

Change it to what?

I think I have seen as icons CDs, hard drives, usb sticks, sd cards... which may be varying levels of obsolete depending on audience.

A cloud might do the job.

"Make your data go 'poof!'"?

We old