> Surely [hour glasses] were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed I was a toddler when these icons were created, bu

> Surely [hour glasses] were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed I was a toddler when these icons were created, but I can think of two notable exceptions: egg timers (which my family still used when I was a kid) and board game timers (the canonical example of which, in my mind, is the one that used to ship with Boggle).