💾 floppy disk = save

🔍 magnifying glass = search

⚙ gear = settings

🗑 bin = delete

♥ heart = like

☰ three lines = menu

The original object can disappear while its symbolic descendant survives.

Many people click a floppy disk icon without ever having saved a file onto a floppy disk.

The symbol has become detached from the technology that produced it.

Its survival depends on continued copying inside interface culture.

Cultural ancestry can remain visible after functional ancestry has vanished.