The original cursor was a dot, then a line pointing straight upwards. It’s an instrument of precision, of tiny click targets on a screen feet away. Slightly angled, with a straight edge and a 45 degree slope leading to a sharp pixel-by-pixel point. Its everyday utility, pioneered at SRI and Xerox Parc and later combined with a bit of iconic * work from Susan Kare at Apple, has made the pointer our avatar in digital space for nearly 40 years. Even though Apple did not invent the mouse pointer, history has cemented its place in dragging it out of obscurity and into mainstream use.
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