The Origin of the Broken Image Chain
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As founders, Fasil and I wanted to create a jewelry design that represented our philosophy and aesthetic. After several discussions, we settled on designing something based on Marsh Chamberlain's design of the "broken image link" icon for Netscape made in the early days of the internet.  The original design is a 14X16
  • PhobosAnomalyEnglish
    5•3 months ago

    Slightly off topic: the IE red-X symbol is beautifully functional - does the job without needing any language at all - but the Netscape Navigator symbol is just wonderful. It didn’t need to go that hard, and it’s iconic (literally).

  • @geriksonEnglish
    4•3 months ago

    Cool article! But I really never liked that icon, sadly.