Wednesday, June 22, 2011

A history of logos ... By (effect man)

I met a computer engineer who told me a lot of stories on the logos of big names in the computer:
The Apple logo would be a tribute to the great mathematician Alan Turing. Indeed Alan Turing committed suicide by eating an apple infused with cyanide. Prosecuted for his homosexuality in British society and forced to choose between prison and treatment with
estrogen, the great Alan Turing chose to commit suicide ... In tribute to the work of the mathematician to the computer, Apple chose the bitten apple, a bit like Snow White ... Everyone knows Java, developed by Sun (sun in English, keep that in mind for on) and whose symbol is a coffee cup ... The Debian Project has chosen this whirlwind, appearing in coffee cups ... Interesting is not it? but I prefer if IBM has chosen to name Eclipse, its framework for Java. In fact the sun, SUN, was to be eclipsed by the new project from IBM ...So who said the computer are people serious? Personally I think I told this to my class tomorrow ... it will inspire some be ...





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