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Kids today know what a floppy disk looks like, but not what one is. They only know it as a "save" icon in games and apps.
And the phone call icon being a landline
And the email icon being an envelope
Land lines are nice
A dumpster for spam
businesses still have landlines
Very often they are SIP voip solutions that barely have anything to do with landlines, other than the number pattern and area prefix.
It's called a skeuomorph, and many times the camera symbol is one too, as most modern cameras don't look like that.
The only examples I can think of look like a DSLR or similar. It would be funny if they looked like an 1800s camera with the bellows focus.