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💾 Floppy disk

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💾 Emoji meaning

Outdated storage medium, symbol for "Save."

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💾 Meaning

I will save that! Meanwhile obsolete, but a popular data storage format for the PC from 1970 to the 90s. Symbol of the function “save” in computer programs.

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Commonly confused with

Color Variant

Floppy disk

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Floppy disk vs optical disk; both legacy storage icons, technology difference is often ignored.

Same Shape

Floppy disk

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Computer disk vs floppy disk; both storage media icons used generically to indicate saving data.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Floppy disk” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .

In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- floppy disk

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ floppy disk

In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ computer + disk + floppy

In the release of Emoji 2.0 and Unicode 8.0 in 2015 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords removed

- disk - floppy

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