Not sure how this works. I'm guessing the bottom is an electronic key, and the top for an actual key? Interesting that the icon is still a key although I bet that the actual electronic key looks nothing like a key.
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Not sure how this works. I'm guessing the bottom is an electronic key, and the top for an actual key? Interesting that the icon is still a key although I bet that the actual electronic key looks nothing like a key.
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As the icon era matures, I think we'll be seeing this more and more. The original icons were based more or less on silhouettes of the technology of the day. Then technology changes beyond the recognizability of the icon. We're in that transition. You see fewer phone icons with a rotary base, but you still see the classic handset from those phones used as the icons for answer/hangup on cell phones. You have to admit, they cut a better silhouette as a handset than a candybar phone. Someday kids won't recognize our classic handset icon (or know how to text on a rotary phone either).
Posted by TomL | October 18, 2006 10:31 AM
Posted on October 18, 2006 10:31
You're right. I had a lock with this exact picture on it. The "key" was a black plastic rectangle.
Posted by Thomas David Baker | October 19, 2006 7:24 AM
Posted on October 19, 2006 07:24