Tuesday, August 17, 2010

The Secret Histories Of Those @#$%Ing Computer Symbols

http://www.popsci.com/science/gallery/2010-08/secret-histories-those-ing-computer-symbols

a 1 meant "on," and a 0 meant off. In 1973, the International Electrotechnical Commission vaguely codified a broken circle with a line inside it as "standby power state,"

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In musical notation, the caesura indicates a-wait for it-pause

the snail (France and Italy), the little mouse (China), the monkey's tail (Germany)

the hypnowheel of doom, the spinning pizza, the pinwheel of death, the SBBOD (spinning beach ball of death).

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