Editing Floppy disk (section)

===Legacy===
[[File:Save Icon in Open Office.png|thumb|right|Screenshot depicting a floppy disk as "save" icon]]

For more than two decades, the floppy disk was the primary external writable storage device used. Most computing environments before the 1990s were non-networked, and floppy disks were the primary means to transfer data between computers, a method known informally as [[sneakernet]]. Unlike hard disks, floppy disks were handled and seen; even a novice user could identify a floppy disk. Because of these factors, a picture of a 3½-inch floppy disk became an [[interface metaphor]] for saving data. {{As of|2024}}, the floppy disk [[skeuomorph|symbol]] is still used by software on user-interface elements related to saving files even though physical floppy disks are largely obsolete.<ref name="Til2026" /> Examples of such software include [[LibreOffice]], [[Microsoft Paint]], and [[WordPad]].