If you see this icon on a website next to a link, what does it mean? Please respond with the first thing you think of. (You can’t do polls with images, apparently.)pic.twitter.com/wrG8JfGsRs
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I now see nobody thought this pretty much, but for me it is obvious. I even used it here as the placeholder to the only external link that doesn't have an icon (although in Brad's case it's not exactly an EXternal link):http://bradlove.org/lab#people
Exactly! I wonder how much it has to do with browsing other technical/tech-focused people's pages, where it seems a lot more common than as a corporate icon for "pop out."
Yeah, no idea. Do you know who or what org created this icon? It's hella old is my bet.
Font Awesome (https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome …) made the most popular ones, though I'm not sure if that icon started as meaning external link, popout, or what.
I mean the very very first instance. I'm betting it's from the 90s.
Ooh interesting! It's hard to reverse-search icons, I'm learning. I saw some people doing it on their websites and I found it to be useful, but I may replicate it w/ different color underlines or something.
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