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Recently someone asked in one of our internal newsgroups at
SDRC
"Does anyone know how icons came to be known as
icons? Why they are called that, who started it, etc?".
I was thinking that ICONs may have been invented at PARC.
Probably someone on this mailing list knows the answer and I'd like to
hear the real story.
Thanks in advance,
- Steve