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Many years ago a man wrote a funny reply to a a Twitter thread pretending not to understand the whole Vietnam-analogy of Star Wars. You could tell he was joking just by opening his Twitter page and scrolling through his older tweets.

Since then I've seen countless people sharing screenshots of that thread making it seem that this joker was being completely serious and clueless.

This bugs me every single time I see it. It is a lesson in not believing every screenshot you see posted on social media but more importantly it shows how de-emphasizing links has corrupted information sharing on the web.

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@bitnacht Good point, re: the busy bee.

As for the spinning disc (or "beachball"), it got its start in NEXTSTEP as a greyscale spinning magneto-optical disc rendering indicating the system is busy / data is loading, which was seen quite often on the early NeXT Cube, as it came with no HD but only an MO drive, and it used that drive for _swap_, if you can imagine...

That spinning disc became color when NEXTSTEP gained a color display on later hardware, and from there it evolved into the spinning "beachball" we know today (macOS being structurally based upon and evolved from NEXTSTEP/OPENSTEP).

EDIT: Oh, I think I misread - you are talking about the busy mouse pointer icon in Windows, I think. I'm not sure of its specific history. Apologies.

#macOS#NeXT#NEXTSTEP

#Fediverse friends, these are tough & frightening times for many of us.

#Humor #sarcasm and #snark are great outlets for stress but can have the opposite effect if not labelled correctly. Please don't assume everyone knows "It's a joke."

For real events lease cite #links, #references & #facts, not just #screenshots, whenever possible.

If we're going to get out of this we need to work with #fact not #distraction.

Please #factcheck or ask others for citations, references & clarification.