Black Hard Shell Floppy Disk refers to a Unicode symbol concept for a rigid 3.5-inch floppy disk, associated with older computer-interface icon sets and later Unicode symbol discussions. It was encoded as a text symbol rather than becoming a fully supported, officially approved emoji, and it is not part of the standard RGI emoji set used like modern colorful emoji. The idea belongs to the same cultural space as the existing floppy disk emoji, but emphasizes a black hard-shell disk rather than the more familiar blue save-icon style.
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was one of the "suggested emojis" the Unicode group unveiled in June 2014 [article], however, it has been, and still is, up to the companies who support emoji in their operating systems to provide not only images but also an algorithm to replace the emoji code into the emoji image.
