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None of the Stack Overflow answers mention Alan Kay, who created the angled mouse cursor at PARC. When asked about this¹, he responded: "The Parc mouse cursor
by CharlesW 3y ago
None of the Stack Overflow answers mention Alan Kay, who created the angled mouse cursor at PARC. When asked about this¹, he responded:
"The Parc mouse cursor appearance was done (actually by me) because in a 16x16 grid of one-bit pixels (what the Alto at Parc used for a cursor) this gives you a nice arrowhead if you have one side of the arrow vertical and the other angled (along with other things there, I designed and made many of the initial bitmap fonts). Then it stuck, as so many things in computing do."
¹ https://jameshk.com/mouse-cursor https://jameshk.com/mouse-cursor
- arduanika 3y agoNor did they mention Mark Zuckerberg, who is still holding his head up high in the face of negative press: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/facebook-meta-silicon-valley-politics/677168/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/faceboo... giving the appearance that the mouse is tilted.
- gymbeaux 3y agoHail, Zucker
- jasomill 3y agoTo see this mouse cursor in action, go to https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/ and follow the instructions under "Running Smalltalk 76".