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Forget the iPhone 16, the real tech icon of the week is a floppy disk, as tech journalist Nick Bilton accidentally sparks a full-scale nostalgia war on X after tweeting that his pre-teen son has never heard of a 'save icon.'

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Forget the iPhone 16, the real tech icon of the week is a floppy disk, as tech journalist Nick Bilton accidentally sparks a full-scale nostalgia war on X after tweeting that his pre-teen son has never heard of a 'save icon.'

Expert meme historians are now comparing the viral meltdown to arguing about the proper way to hold a pencil, with Gen Z scrambling to explain the floppy disk to Gen Alpha while Millennials weep over their discarded external hard drives. Bilton’s simple query has become the internet’s newest litmus test for generational trauma, with everyone suddenly an expert in obsolete data storage.