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.
'Icon' is a word, not an acronym, isn't it? The mac capitalizes the resource name, but other than that, it's simply the Greek word. (?)
--- Joshua * San Francisco: 415 / 505.9406 (37.753083N -122.430501W) Sorting out my life. . . .in O(n lg n). Love is like pi: natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman ---
Apologies; my mailer changes the actual sender address to some hideous error message. (but only from the squeak list. . . )
Anyway, that was not intended to be list traffic!
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Joshua Marker wrote:
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.
'Icon' is a word, not an acronym, isn't it? The mac capitalizes the resource name, but other than that, it's simply the Greek word. (?)
--- Joshua * San Francisco: 415 / 505.9406 (37.753083N -122.430501W) Sorting out my life. . . .in O(n lg n). Love is like pi: natural, irrational, and very important.
-- Lisa Hoffman
--- Joshua * San Francisco: 415 / 505.9406 (37.753083N -122.430501W) Sorting out my life. . . .in O(n lg n). Love is like pi: natural, irrational, and very important. -- Lisa Hoffman ---
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.
'Icon' is a word, not an acronym, isn't it? The mac capitalizes the resource name, but other than that, it's simply the Greek word. (?)
It's also an Italian word: "icona"
In a non informatical context, the icons are small images that simbolize a different meaning. In Italian, for example, the icone are those small saint images you can see in middleage churchs or buildings.
Bye Adriano
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