💾️ Floppy disk emoji

A floppy disk or floppy diskette, an obsolete technology for storing and distributing digital files such as software, 🎮 video games (such as Doom II) or documents.

Commonly used to refer to 💾 saving or backing up a file or 📄 document.

Floppy disks are a type of 🧲 magnetic storage, they were replaced by 💿 CDs, 📀 DVDs, and later USB Flash Drives, which are sometimes considered obsolete also due to the advent of ☁️ cloud storage.

See also, 💽 Computer disk.

Could also be called floppy, diskette, disk, retro disk, save or backup emoji.

Example Usage

Don't forget to save your progress! 💾 Floppy disk

More details

🔬 Invented in 1960s by IBM and commercially available in 1971, floppy disks were various sizes, including 8-inch, 5¼-inch, and most commonly, 3.5-inch disks.

3.5-inch disks had a standard storage of 1.44 MB, much smaller than modern devices and not enough space for a single iPhone 📸 photo!

The floppy disk emoji evokes a sense of nostalgia, remembering the early days of 🖥️ personal computing.

Related emoji

Digital storage emojis

• ☁️ Cloud
• 💽️ Computer disk
• 💿️ Optical disk
• 📀️ Dvd

Retro emojis

• ☎️ Telephone
• 📞️ Telephone receiver
• 📟️ Pager
• 📠️ Fax machine

Visual description

Usually depicted as a black or gray square with an angled top right corner, the floppy disk emoji features a metal shutter at the top, about a third of the height and half the width of the disk. A recessed groove to the left of the shutter indicates where it slides horizontally to expose the disk for reading and writing. Beneath it is a large, blank white label for a description of the disk’s content, with a colorful stripe at the top, often red or blue. Some emojis also include grooves in the bottom corners for disk alignment and a debossed arrow in the top left corner indicating the loading direction.

Microsoft’s emoji is purple, while WhatsApp’s is bright blue and upside down.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.