A great place for architects and dilettantes
8/20/2010 02:14:00 PM
mikey b.
Wired is by far my favorite magazine. Their features and articles are always very informative as well as entertaining. They also change up their design from issue to issue, which makes for a nice treat every time you crack open the pages.
On top of that, they've got a tremendous blog roll. They cover all of our modern interests, cars, sports, photography, space, business, web and even one for the geeky dad.
While catching up on some of old posts from their Gadget Lab blog, I came across a very neat story covering the history of common computer symbols. Here's a few of my favorites:
POWERBack during WWII, binary was used to label individual power buttons, toggles and switches. "1" meant "On"; "0" meant "Off". In 1973, the International Electrotechnical Commission put the two together to represent "Standby power state". That was later change by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers to our present day meaning of "Power".
USBThat's a small taste. They've got the story behind much more symbols, including Bluetooth, Firewire, Pause, Play, the spinning beach ball of death and even '@'. We see these icons everywhere we go in our regular lives. It's just neat to catch up on how they got to where they are. Go read up!
*Black History Month; Death From Above 1979
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