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Interwebz ^ | 11-15 | KJM

Posted on 11/15/2010 9:39:26 AM PST by Blue Highway

When did this logo originate and what does it represent?

My interpretation is that on the right side, that is Apple or "Steve Jobs" smirking at the face on the left which represents the Apple customers that fell for the Apple marketing gimmicks.



TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: apple; mac
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To: Blue Highway

IBTZ


21 posted on 11/15/2010 10:22:04 AM PST by rwilson99
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To: Blue Highway
Well, uh...Hmmm.

Are you having a day off...Or something?

22 posted on 11/15/2010 10:31:12 AM PST by Celtic Cross (I AM the Impeccable Hat.)
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To: Blue Highway

I see innovative large icons for Go, Caution, Stop and BSOD, then the Window breaking into itty bitty pieces as it’s thrown outside in frustration.


23 posted on 11/15/2010 10:37:42 AM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

I will admit that is pretty funny. And I do wonder if the BSOD represented by the blue pane was an inside joke from someone @ Microsoft.


24 posted on 11/15/2010 11:09:24 AM PST by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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To: Blue Highway

I had an Atari 400... the daisy chain add ons... even had a modem


25 posted on 11/15/2010 11:09:28 AM PST by NativeSon
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To: Blue Highway

Funniest things I’ve ever seen/heard (on a Mac) was a warning that started with “Yikes!” and another time when I punched my Quadra, it made a car crashing sound and died.


26 posted on 11/15/2010 11:10:59 AM PST by al_c (http://www.blowoutcongress.com)
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To: NativeSon

They (Atari 400) were OK with 64K upgraded RAM. Never liked the membrane keyboard though.


27 posted on 11/15/2010 11:17:32 AM PST by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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To: Blue Highway
Pointless post. I believe intended to start a flame war, Blue. I will not ping the list to a vanity of this type.

As to the origin of the icon, it was a modernization of the original icon developed by Susan Kane with the Mac... back in 1984... to indicate a friendly computer with a personality.

Jonny Ives updated it with the release of the iMac. The rectangle represents the screen of the original Mac and it retains the smiling face of the personality of the Mac computer.


28 posted on 11/15/2010 11:29:35 AM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Swordmaker

Not intended to start anything other than finding out the origin of the icon, which you and a few others have mentioned. Mission accomplished. Not really pointless, fun fun factoid type of vanity post. What’s wrong with that?


29 posted on 11/15/2010 11:39:38 AM PST by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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To: Swordmaker

What prompted me to post this was I was checking out a tracking number on UPS.com and they have the Mac smiling icon, so it made me curious, and I figured if anyone would know the story behind that smiling art deco icon it would be Sword or anti-republicrat


30 posted on 11/15/2010 11:42:12 AM PST by Blue Highway ("Judge me by the people with whom I surround myself" Barack Obama, Oct 15, 2008 Presidential debate)
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To: Blue Highway
Not intended to start anything other than finding out the origin of the icon, which you and a few others have mentioned. Mission accomplished. Not really pointless, fun fun factoid type of vanity post. What’s wrong with that?

OK...

31 posted on 11/15/2010 12:35:08 PM PST by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft product "insult" free zone.)
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To: Blue Highway

"All my people are dark on the right side..."

32 posted on 11/15/2010 12:37:54 PM PST by mikrofon (Superior breed)
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To: mnehring

Sadly, real life is rarely so exciting. The inital purpose of the bite was to give some scale so it wouldn’t be confused with a cherry.


33 posted on 11/15/2010 1:27:05 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Blue Highway

My first experience with Microsoft was back with my Atari 800 with a version of Microsoft Basic in the early 1980s.

IIRC, for me it was BASIC for the TRS-80 Model III followed by the TRS-80 Model 100's firmware (including its BASIC), which was the last piece of software from Microsoft substantially written by Bill Gates himself. The latter was a quite impressive system, still in use today by many for real field work.

34 posted on 11/15/2010 1:40:56 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: mnehring

The clear logo was adopted in 2000, quite possibly because the rainbow one was seen as too ‘70s. It likely also symbolized the fact that they’ve shifted their focus to being more of a multimedia than a computer company (like changing their name from Apple Computer to Apple Inc.)


35 posted on 11/15/2010 2:46:00 PM PST by Strk321
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To: Blue Highway

When the Amiga had an OS failure, it shifted the screen down, and displayed a black box with a red border, and in bright red letters: “Guru Meditation Error: xxxxx”.

This was an inside joke - Amiga Corp., in trying to raise funds for the development of the Amiga computer, designed and manufactured arcade game joysticks. One of their designs was a platform on which you stood, and shifted your weight to control the game. This was designed for skiing games, etc., but their own in-house game was called “Guru Meditation”, in which you sat on the platform and the less you moved, the higher your score.


36 posted on 11/16/2010 1:27:46 PM PST by jdege
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