Outdated icons that have lost their meaning.
When was the last time you put a rag bookmark in a paper book? And when was the last time you saw a TV with a radio antenna? Do you often use binoculars to find information? Microsoft's Scott Hanselman (Scott Hanselman) is genuinely indignant that such archaic characters are used as standard icons.
Surprisingly, a whole generation of people has grown up who have never seen a real diskette but know the Save icon very well.
1. Radio buttons
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Did you know that radio buttons (Radio Buttons) are called like this because on ancient tape recorders only one key could be pressed? By analogy, they called a computer switch where only one choice can be made.
2. Disk phone
How long have you been holding such a tube? But every day we click on this icon in a modern smartphone.
3. Wooden tablet for “information transfer”
Interface developers stubbornly use a wooden tablet as a symbol for the “paste” operation. The question is, why not “copy” or “fill out a form,” why exactly “paste”?
4. Bookmark in paper book
Previously, such cloths used for bookmarks between the pages of the book. This archaic symbol will remain with us for a long time.
5. Diary and tear-off calendar
Such artifacts can still be found in the house of parents or grandmothers. Well, or in any computer where a bundle of paper with a metal spiral symbolizes a list of contacts or dates.
6. Voicemail
The voice mail icon is copied from the ancient reels, on which our grandfathers recorded sound.
7. Cardboard folders
Documents previously stored in folders of this form. It is said that some people still use them offline. Well, in the digital world it is the ubiquitous symbol of the file directory.
8. Magnifier and Binoculars
For some strange reason, binoculars began to search for a document, and a magnifying glass - “search everywhere”, although it would be logical to do the opposite.
9. Envelopes
Soon the envelopes will disappear forever, and our children will ask what this rectangle has in common with e-mail? But the designers still draw on top of the envelope all sorts of arrows and badges for accepted, sent, remote mail, etc.
10. Gears and wrench
Want to make a settings panel in the style of the 20th century? Show young people a tool they have never used in their lives.
11. Microphones
Only the historical section of Wikipedia will tell the modern user what professional microphones looked like.
12. Photography
No one under the age of 30 held the Polaroid camera in his hands, but these square sheets of paper are still used as a symbol of photography.
13. Televisions with horns
Horns above the TV - an indispensable attribute of the icon of digital video.
Surprisingly, a whole generation of people has grown up who have never seen a real diskette but know the Save icon very well.
1. Radio buttons
')
Did you know that radio buttons (Radio Buttons) are called like this because on ancient tape recorders only one key could be pressed? By analogy, they called a computer switch where only one choice can be made.
2. Disk phone
How long have you been holding such a tube? But every day we click on this icon in a modern smartphone.
3. Wooden tablet for “information transfer”
Interface developers stubbornly use a wooden tablet as a symbol for the “paste” operation. The question is, why not “copy” or “fill out a form,” why exactly “paste”?
4. Bookmark in paper book
Previously, such cloths used for bookmarks between the pages of the book. This archaic symbol will remain with us for a long time.
5. Diary and tear-off calendar
Such artifacts can still be found in the house of parents or grandmothers. Well, or in any computer where a bundle of paper with a metal spiral symbolizes a list of contacts or dates.
6. Voicemail
The voice mail icon is copied from the ancient reels, on which our grandfathers recorded sound.
7. Cardboard folders
Documents previously stored in folders of this form. It is said that some people still use them offline. Well, in the digital world it is the ubiquitous symbol of the file directory.
8. Magnifier and Binoculars
For some strange reason, binoculars began to search for a document, and a magnifying glass - “search everywhere”, although it would be logical to do the opposite.
9. Envelopes
Soon the envelopes will disappear forever, and our children will ask what this rectangle has in common with e-mail? But the designers still draw on top of the envelope all sorts of arrows and badges for accepted, sent, remote mail, etc.
10. Gears and wrench
Want to make a settings panel in the style of the 20th century? Show young people a tool they have never used in their lives.
11. Microphones
Only the historical section of Wikipedia will tell the modern user what professional microphones looked like.
12. Photography
No one under the age of 30 held the Polaroid camera in his hands, but these square sheets of paper are still used as a symbol of photography.
13. Televisions with horns
Horns above the TV - an indispensable attribute of the icon of digital video.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/143997/
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