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AllBlue

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3. It's called a "hamburger menu"

Reply to AllaN01Bear (Original post)

Mon Oct 3, 2022, 10:56 PM

Oct 2022

"The inventor behind the hamburger menu icon is a man named Norm Cox. He made the burger icon for Xerox Star, which was the world’s first graphical user interface. That was more than three decades ago.

Afterwards though, the icon did a disappearing act.

It’s only relatively recently that the 3 line menu icon started creeping back, with the advent of mobile devices."

From : https://smallbiztrends.com/2015/01/3-line-menu-icon-hamburger-menu.html

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when did three bars become the symbol for menu? thanks [View all] AllaN01Bear Oct 2022 OP

Since we started thinking with our phones. TreasonousBastard Oct 2022 #1

Yup RainCaster Oct 2022 #2

It's called a "hamburger menu" AllBlue Oct 2022 #3

Short answer: Like everything else, people created it because they could. usonian Oct 2022 #4