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The 3.5" floppy disk is easy to draw and recognize. Today we save documents on mechanical drives, SSDs, USB devices, cloud... As a way to represent the "save" action, the only alternative to floppy is an arrow and a square, or an arrow and a cloud. It's imprecise and vague. The floppy disk is still a strong metaphor.

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It's kind of the same reason people will call something a "tape" when they mean a "audio/video recording". Or they "wire" you money. Or that welfare is paid with "food stamps" (it actually comes on a card now).

Certain legacy methods and technologies just carry on in the vernacular because it's easier to make analogies to them long after they become obsolete.

You made me curious about the origin of wiring money. Turns out, it was named after bank transfers carried over telegraph wire. I think it is safe to assume that wire transfers are still carried over wires. So it is actually not anachronistic at all, but is technically correct (the _only_ kind of correct).

This is the correct answer.

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