These are all very recent (eg: ~10 years) icons, and on OS X only. Far from being "through the ages". This had a lot of potential if they had started with wind

These are all very recent (eg: ~10 years) icons, and on OS X only. Far from being "through the ages". This had a lot of potential if they had started with windows 3.11 (dunno if earlier had HDD icons, another interesting fact), Mac OS 1, and maybe gnome/kde 1.