Outdated icons that have lost meaning
When was the last time you put a rag bookmark in a paper book? When was the last time you saw a TV with antenna-horns? Do you often use your binoculars to search for information? Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman) from Microsoft sincerely indignant that is so archaic characters are used as standard icons.
Amazing — a whole generation of people who have never seen an actual floppy disk but know the Save icon.
1. Radio buttons
Did you know that radio buttons (Radio Buttons) are so named because the ancient stereos down could only be one key? By analogy called computer switch where you can make only one choice.
2. Dial telephone
How long have you been holding this up? But every day, click on this icon in the modern smartphone.
3. Wooden tablet for the "transfer of information"
Developers hard wooden tablet used as a symbol of the paste. The question is, why not "copy" or "fill the form" why "paste"?
4. Bookmark in a paper book
Previously, these cloths were used for a bookmark between the pages of books. This archaic symbol will long be with us.
5. Calendar and tear-off calendar
Such artifacts can still be found in the house of parents or grandparents. Well, or in any computer where the stack of paper with metal spiral symbolizes the list of contacts or dates.
6. Voicemail
The voice mail icon copied from the ancient reels on which our ancestors recorded the sound.
7. Cardboard folders
In folders such form previously filed documents. They say that they still have some uses offline. But in the digital world is a universal symbol of the file directory.
8. Magnifying glass and binoculars
For some strange reason, the binocular has come to mean the search for a document and magnifying glass — "search everywhere", although it would be logical to do the opposite.
9. Envelopes
Soon envelopes will disappear forever and our children will ask what the rectangle has a e-mail? But designers still draw on top of the envelope all sorts of arrows and icons for accepted, sent, deleted mail etc.
10. The gear wrench
Want to make a settings panel in the style of the 20th century? Show the youth a tool they had never used.
11. Microphones
Only the historical section of Wikipedia will tell the modern user that looked so professional microphones.
12. Photo
No one under 30 years old was not holding a camera "Polaroid", but these square sheets of paper is still used as a symbol of pictures.
13. TVs with horns
The horns on the TV — an indispensable attribute of the icons of digital video.
Article based on information from habrahabr.ru
Amazing — a whole generation of people who have never seen an actual floppy disk but know the Save icon.
1. Radio buttons
Did you know that radio buttons (Radio Buttons) are so named because the ancient stereos down could only be one key? By analogy called computer switch where you can make only one choice.
2. Dial telephone
How long have you been holding this up? But every day, click on this icon in the modern smartphone.
3. Wooden tablet for the "transfer of information"
Developers hard wooden tablet used as a symbol of the paste. The question is, why not "copy" or "fill the form" why "paste"?
4. Bookmark in a paper book
Previously, these cloths were used for a bookmark between the pages of books. This archaic symbol will long be with us.
5. Calendar and tear-off calendar
Such artifacts can still be found in the house of parents or grandparents. Well, or in any computer where the stack of paper with metal spiral symbolizes the list of contacts or dates.
6. Voicemail
The voice mail icon copied from the ancient reels on which our ancestors recorded the sound.
7. Cardboard folders
In folders such form previously filed documents. They say that they still have some uses offline. But in the digital world is a universal symbol of the file directory.
8. Magnifying glass and binoculars
For some strange reason, the binocular has come to mean the search for a document and magnifying glass — "search everywhere", although it would be logical to do the opposite.
9. Envelopes
Soon envelopes will disappear forever and our children will ask what the rectangle has a e-mail? But designers still draw on top of the envelope all sorts of arrows and icons for accepted, sent, deleted mail etc.
10. The gear wrench
Want to make a settings panel in the style of the 20th century? Show the youth a tool they had never used.
11. Microphones
Only the historical section of Wikipedia will tell the modern user that looked so professional microphones.
12. Photo
No one under 30 years old was not holding a camera "Polaroid", but these square sheets of paper is still used as a symbol of pictures.
13. TVs with horns
The horns on the TV — an indispensable attribute of the icons of digital video.
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