A History of Windows Icons - Painfully Boring
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Loading ...A History of Windows Icons, a list of, you guessed it, Windows icons throughout its existence, is painfully boring. Well… The article is not boring, the icons history is boring.
Windows-Icons.com has laid out the most common Windows icons in a time line, quickly you grasp that there has been little to no change through the years. Take the Notepad icon below (taken from Windows-Icons.com):
Credit: http://www.windows-icons.com/history.htm
Forget the poor quality, the visible dots, and just judge the icons on their lack of creativity. Sure, in 1990 it was cool, but nearly the exact same icon for 10 years!
Yeah… Icons are meaningless, or are they. Apple is winning people because of their interest in aesthetics, and have somehow tied the idea of “Good vs. Evil” into the mix.
To be fair, some icons have completely changed, maybe it is just looking back 7 years to see how shockingly different icons have changed in such a short period, but remained static for so long.