Every Tech Symbol Explained in 12 Minutes
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Every Tech Symbol Explained in 12 Minutes
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Bluetooth symbol meaning, power symbol meaning and every tech symbol explained: the tech symbols on your phone, laptop and keyboard explained one by one. The power button symbol and power symbol meaning; the USB symbol and the USB trident; the Wi-Fi meaning and what does Wi-Fi stand for; the command key symbol of Susan Kare; the save icon floppy disk; the hamburger menu icon of the Xerox Star; the mouse cursor and why the mouse cursor tilts; the at sign history; the hashtag history and the octothorpe; the Android robot; the QR code history; the Bluetooth name origin and Harald Bluetooth. Every tech symbol explained in 12 minutes: the Bluetooth symbol meaning, the USB symbol, the power button symbol, the command key symbol, the hamburger menu icon, the save icon floppy disk, the octothorpe, the Android robot and the QR code history, with the tech history of each symbol. Tech symbols explained for anyone who wondered what the Bluetooth symbol, the USB trident or the power symbol really mean. Each tech symbol has a story: an engineer, a designer, a standard or a Viking king, and every detail here is checked against the original sources. From the power button symbol to the Bluetooth symbol meaning, this is tech history in twelve short chapters, one symbol at a time.
0:00 The power symbol
1:46 USB and Wi-Fi
3:38 The Command key
4:38 The save icon and the hamburger menu
6:27 The tilted cursor
7:16 The @ and # signs
8:50 Android and the QR code
10:29 Bluetooth
Sources:
IEC 60417, graphical symbols for use on equipment, IEC
Unicode 9.0 power symbols, Unicode Consortium, 2016
History of QR Code, Denso Wave
Origin of the Bluetooth name, Bluetooth SIG
Chris Messina's first hashtag post, Twitter, 2007
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