[Sigia-l] is there a word

Listera listera at rcn.com
Mon Jun 7 04:30:36 EDT 2004


Eric Reiss:

> As far as naming icons is concerned, somewhere around 1990, after the
> advent of Macromedia Director, I started hearing about "micons,"
> which were moving icons. Perhaps this is a Macromedia invention.

If memory serves well here, I think it was coined by the MIT Media Lab folk
who first used them in the "Elastic Charles" videodisk project, running on
Apple HyperCard.

Ziya
Nullius in Verba 





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