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.
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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?
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.