The Throbbing Floppy

In this era of networks and USB keys, why does Visual Studio show a throbbing floppy when it's saving work?

Just wondering.

Comments

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2007
  Probably because theres is no icon for hard drive that everyone would recognize.

• Anonymous
  May 09, 2007
  The comment has been removed

• Anonymous
  May 17, 2007
  Then again look how often an icon of a scroll is used for a document or script. When was the last time anyone unrolled a document :-)