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by coobird 1209 days ago
Indeed. When someone says ワープロ, electronic typewriters are what come to mind, just like what the Japanese Wikipedia page[1] shows. The word ワープロ馬鹿 probably wouldn't make much sense to those under 30, as they're very unlikely to have ever used a ワープロ.

1: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3...

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The floppy disk doesn’t mean a thing to younger generations, yet their icon representation is very common in a lot of UIs (save button).

So this point doesn’t make sense to me in this particular discussion - even though you may be right at the end of the day.