The 6th paragraph of the History section reads almost as if its insinuating that the US colonized the Phillipines as if to maintain a steady supply of folders.
We’ve done it for flimsier excuses
I think manilla folders arranged properly could easily support more than a pile of bananas could.
They did it for bananas, they’d do it for office supplies.
The Guggenheim claims that this creation of manila paper was a way “of recycling manila rope, previously used on ships”.
Okay, that’s cool!
So directory icons now make sense. Interesting.
See also: Skeuomorph.
Fascinating… Not sure I’ve ever met any one that legitimately doesn’t know what a file folder is. They still had a crap ton of them for sale the last time I was in an office supply aisle shopping for school stuff.
Out of curiosity do you know what the Save icon represents?
I feel old 🧓
At this rate I’m curious if they have even seen a save icon.
A 3.5 inch floppy disk
Do … do people these days not use file folders?
I have heard from some teachers that some gen z students don’t even use file directories. They just search everything. Obviously not all of them, but it apparently is a growing phenomenon
I never saw in person this type of file folder.
Maybe it’s common in a bureaucracy.
