OK. So where is the pressure to change that? Given that there’s no need.
No pressure, the natural events will act. One day you will wake up and notice that 10% of the software uses diskette for “save”, 90% uses other things, and from those 90% some symbol got popular. Then, next year, 0% will be using a diskette icon.
And now, returning to the thread subject… Humor…
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Not really. Most adults from the era when the machines were introduced, would have reacted the same way, as would their kids. Nothing new there, then.
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Could it be that YoT (Youth of Today) missed the humor? No one gave a passing remark about using that magnet to hold the “Do Not Erase” disk against the door. You know that will erase the disk, right 
Perhaps it’s a given - everyone knows magnets and electronic media storage don’t mix.
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The average Xojo user certainly used this 1952 technology and know it. No one gave a passing remark because this joke is obvious for 99% of the people here (also the one about the stapled disk on a letter). Steve Jobs removed the floppy drive from iMac in 1998, Dell announced the end of it in their computers in 2003, by 2007 no one could find a floppy disk on IT supplies stores shelves. And Sony finally ended its residual production in 2011, others did the same, way before Sony and few after Sony. Chances are that any person with less than 15yo never saw one live or even know what it is. Not us, we know. 
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https://youtu.be/PBsKakmW0fs?feature=shared
Who remembers the Computer Chronicles TV show?
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Those days my external influence was coming from UK.
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Those 3.5" disks came along a LONG after that . Sony introduced them in 1981 and they lasted in the 1990’s.
When I got my first disk drive… floppy disks (5.25") were actually floppy !
- Karen
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My first job in software was with a local (Minneapolis) company that made dedicated word processors, CPT. They used 8" floppies.
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Yep, floppy ! My first computer was a Sol, 5.25" floppy with a whopping 90K per diskette. That’s storage. I bought a dual 8" floppy units, can’t remember who much they stored. This computer was running CP/M.
Visual Aids!
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Actually, given that the magnet is on the center of the floppy, which is a steel hub, the magnet may not affect the part of the disk that is actually floppy, where the data are written.
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Only one way to tell, going to have to test it. Anyone have a floppy drive I can borrow?
In the image of the floppy being held on the fridge door by the magnet, as it it a steel hub to the floppy, I’m not sure enough magnetism would be getting through the steel to attach the floppy to the fridge.
Reminds me of the Perry Mason episode where he erases the blackmailer’s tape of the incriminating phone conversation by holding a magnet close to the tape as he pretends to examine it for splices.
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In the context you misread, we were talking about magnetic disks, the technology, and their fragility when exposed to magnets, not specifically about the that plastic format now defunct.
I was trying to be amusing…
If you want to get serious in this thread, while hard drive magnet storage was around in teh 50’s, floppy disks specifically were not introduced into the market until 1971… not the 1950’s…
History of the floppy disk - Wikipedia.
In any case, I immediately got the joke about the fridge magnet holding up the floppy disk as soon as I saw the picture, even though with the plastic case the floppy was not floppy…
- karen