[OSX-Users] Re: Mystery Icon

Tim Chown tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 28 14:49:51 BST 2011


On 28 Mar 2011, at 15:01, Nick Gibbins wrote:

> 
> On 28 Mar 2011, at 10:53, Leslie Carr wrote:
> 
>> Can anyone help identify this mystery icon? It appears in a number of popular applications, but its design is lost to the mists of time.
>> 
>> http://www.somebits.com/weblog/tech/bad/what-is-this-mystery-icon.html
>> 
>> 
>> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> I think that we should replace it with a stylised icon of a cuneiform 
> tablet, on the grounds that it's a storage format with much greater
> longevity that's still recognisable 3000 years after falling out of use.

I vote for an elephant.

tim


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