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Time for one of my favourite Youtube videos, by Posy (Michiel de Boer.) 'Mouse cursor history (and why I made my own).' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB
by vintagedave 3y ago
Time for one of my favourite Youtube videos, by Posy (Michiel de Boer.) 'Mouse cursor history (and why I made my own).'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg
It runs through the history of mouse cursors, as well as problems with some of the standard ones, and shows, among other things, historical cursors which were straight and not tilted.
It is one of those amazing videos that make the internet worthwhile, is short, and is by the author of Posy's Cursor Pack, http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/ http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/
- loceng 3y agoSeems like this should be in a list somewhere with that big sized keyboard history book that was on HN last week?
- Sakos 3y agoOh, dang, I can't believe I missed that. Would've loved to get a copy of it. It looks amazing.
- hacb 3y agoIt was really interesting and well-made, thanks for sharing!
- Shorel 3y agoGreat video and great link. I use his set on Windows (It looks awesome) and on Ubuntu, the Linux port from here: https://github.com/simtrami/posy-improved-cursor-linux https://github.com/simtrami/posy-improved-cursor-linux
- itomato 3y agoI'm not sure this is accurate. He shows the IIGS cursor as the Lisa "Color mode" cursor, for one thing. He never mentions the NeXT environment, DPS and differences in DPI, their own black and white arrow cursor, and how that cursor actually came into Mac OS X, not the one from System 1 and onward. Hmm.