Google translate of the official sign definition:
"sign 718 "Sight" refers to the location of tourist objects (sights of interest to tourists, heritage conservation, nature conservation or other objects);"
peterpost2 · 2h ago
I've definitely seem them in Norway as well.
I'm so surprised the button comes from that.
tmm · 5h ago
Does anyone what the "international symbol dictionary" Susan Kare used was?
robinhouston · 1h ago
I don't know, and I'd love to.
If I had to guess, I'd guess Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook. It was published in 1972, and it seems plausibly the sort of book someone like Susan Kate might have had to hand in the early '80s. https://www.societyofsigns.com/projects/symbol-sourcebook
wsh · 47m ago
Symbol Sourcebook would’ve been my first guess, too, but I just glanced through my copy (7th printing, 1977) and didn’t see the ⌘ symbol. The closest thing in the Graphic Form Section is a symbol for “Atomic d orbital,” but it’s clearly not the same one that inspired Susan Kare.
Vespasian · 40m ago
Does anybody know of a modern day equivalent in the form of a searchable symbol database maybe even with a "freehand drawn" image search?
Unicode does not quite cover it because it lacks context and meaning of combined codepoints.
Ah, the Saint Hannes cross, or sankthanskors in Sweden, or hannunvaakuna in Finland. It's not so much related to campgrounds, but to mark sightseeing spots in general.
cess11 · 2h ago
No, it's used for "ancient monument", fornminne. It might be a early modern ruin or something that isn't ancient in some scientific sense but still is a place of historical or archaeological interest, while properly old remains, at least pre-reformatory ones, i.e. older than early 1500s, are often marked with a futhark 'r'/'ᚱ'.
kimmk · 6h ago
The same sign is used in Finland. I was puzzled why Apple computers used it but I thought it was just a coincidence...!
LadyCailin · 2h ago
Norway too.
Duanemclemore · 5h ago
Kare really is a genius isn't she?
calf · 6h ago
Never used MacDraw, but I remember installing and using ClarisWorks in middle/high school, I never did actual programming at that age, but I loved playing around with the Mac's word processing, drawing, painting programs, making little art layouts, outlines for class notes, stuff that that.
WillAdams · 5h ago
Sadly, programming wasn't really feasible on the Mac per se due to Bill Gates' manipulations:
Campgrounds have a normal descriptive “tent” symbol road sign in Sweden https://korkortonline.se/en/theory/road-signs/direction-sign...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looped_square
Officially defined in https://www.riigiteataja.ee/akt/126112024009?leiaKehtiv -> https://www.riigiteataja.ee/aktilisa/1261/1202/4009/MKM_2901... -> sign no 718.
Google translate of the official sign definition: "sign 718 "Sight" refers to the location of tourist objects (sights of interest to tourists, heritage conservation, nature conservation or other objects);"
I'm so surprised the button comes from that.
If I had to guess, I'd guess Henry Dreyfuss's Symbol Sourcebook. It was published in 1972, and it seems plausibly the sort of book someone like Susan Kate might have had to hand in the early '80s. https://www.societyofsigns.com/projects/symbol-sourcebook
Unicode does not quite cover it because it lacks context and meaning of combined codepoints.
Previously:
2013 (111 points, 49 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5988557
2011 (177 points, 22 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2643611
https://www.folklore.org/MacBasic.html
Eventually we got HyperCard:
https://www.folklore.org/Joining_Apple_Computer.html