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A History of Icons
John H. Doe writes "The GUIdebook has a great page illustrating the history of icons. Of course, they have the Lisa/Mac/OS X paths, but there's the Windows progressions, along with entries for NeXT, OS/2, BeOS, and yes, Linux. Would you call it progress?"
Worship the icon you techno pagans!
Looks like an iconoclast got to it.
If brevity is the soul of wit, then how does one explain Twitter?
Hm, all of the icons look like the same "broken image" icon to me...
Slashdotted to hell.
What post? The one you're carrying inside your rusty innards!
This is a chart of icons from various interfaces. Clicking on GUI names, section names or icons themselves will lead to the appropriate page: Options Show GUI families: Lisa Office System Mac OS NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP/Rhapsody Windows OS/2 GEOS/GeoWorks Apple II Amiga OS RISC OS BeOS Red Hat Linux QNX Solaris
Why not .avi files instead of .png icons? Sure, it will eat more resources, but it'd be great to see a animation (a real animation, not just a .gif or a jumping/flash effect) each time I press or put the mouse over it.
Don't forget the Biblical Icons. That Golden Calf must have some pretty great raytracing and high polys to be worshipped so blatantly at the risk of utter destruction.
The dangers of knowledge trigger emotional distress in human beings.
Well, when you consider all of the things that icons do, they certain are worth the money you spend on the icon editor.
Have you ever clicked on an icon? You click on an icon and, bammo, there's a big spread sheet or email program on your screen or something. Icon editors must be complex and expensive to accomplish that. Seeing all of the amazing things icons do, it is the one software expense that the guys in purchasing will have no problem approving.
On an unrelated note, being a manager of a large software development team, I had been wondering why you techies like Dilbert so much. I have a big informative staff meeting. Afterwards, the techies gather around to pick the Dilbert that matches the meeting. I don't get it.
In case of Slashdotting, break mirror.
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Oh, and we broke it
I sense much beer in you. Beer leads to intoxication, intoxication leads to hangover. Hangover leads to sobering.
Q. Once upon a time a mouse became trapped in a Russian cathedral; how did he escape?
A. He clicked on an icon and opened a window.
(I can't claim credit for that one...)
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.
Q: Why is Judy Garland like a cute little picture on an Apple Mac?
A: Because they're both gay icons.
Man, that was lame... sorry.
Yet again, the Slashdot editors have allowed a mispelled story to be posted. It should be had.
Ahh, yes! You should have seen mom's face when she noticed that I had replaced her trash can icon with a carefully crafted toilet. When you put files in it, instead of swelling like the can did, I added tasteful wavy green 'stink lines'. Those were the days...
Ceci n'est pas un post.
Awesome! The post you mention is one year old and the link is STILL SLASHDOTTED!
Signatures are for stupids.
It shows the firefox shagging an IE icon instead of the world. :)
It instills a sense of empowerment and camaraderie among us, don't take this away from us ;-)
Help fight continental drift.
ICONS??? I use the terminal you insensitive CLOD!
I can even imagine what it could look like. A big hammer hammering onto a server, where the shaft of the hammer forms the slash of the slashdot sign (i.e. there's the dot part right of it).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
Photoshop isn't a place to get your pix developed.
Paint Shop won't sell you a gallon of white latex
Word would like to have a word with you.
Neither is PowerPoint powerful in the hands of most users, or good at making points
The GIMP, at leas[tt], *IS* "gimpy", The UI drives me nuts!!!!!!!
Life is full of disappointments. Icons are the LEAST of my problems.