And my copy of Linux Mint still uses the shutter-click-motor winding sound for screen shots... Since the photos get dropped in the Pictures folder, it is one of the few ways I know it happened, unlike the copy of Ubuntu I am running on another box that shows the Save As interface.
So we developers keep adding the comfort noises, as well.
At least Mint didn't use the AOL's "File's done" announcement :)
Anecdotally my kids are rapidly approaching teenage years and they have no personal experience with film cameras, or floppy disks. Most attempts at real world icons fail miserably because 1) multicultural 2) one glyph can't explain anything complicated which is why our writing uses alphabet and words.
Notice that however poorly point 2) was written, it contained 15 words and many letters, not a iconic graphic interpretation resembling mating centipedes on a teacup, or whatever GUI icon would be appropriate.
Its almost 2015, the GUI concept is dead and starting to smell, just some haven't noticed yet.
Nothing in IT is ever new and everything in the rotating wheel comes back into style and I GREATLY look forward to the inevitable return of simple text menus as the dominant UI.
So we developers keep adding the comfort noises, as well.
At least Mint didn't use the AOL's "File's done" announcement :)