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by reaperducer 1235 days ago
The icon was designed and introduced in 1981.

"Designed and introduced" on the Xerox Star, which almost nobody used. It was quickly forgotten for 30 years, and only came back into use in 2009, according to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburger_button
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anthk 1234 days ago
This. These younger users thinking the 00's and the 90's where like their child years are pretty much deluded.

And it's odd because you can emulate W98, W2k, WXP and old GNU/Linux distros with damn ease in order to understand that no wm or desktop environment offerred a hamburger menu. And, trust me, lots of people tried zillions on WM's, tons of FVWM2 setups with bizarre configs highly divergent between themselves and no hamburguer button could be found in any of them.

And I can say the FVWM2 and fluxbox/blackbox guys were pioneers on lots of modern GUI trends and current minimalism or paradigm breaking shifts. If you were an UI designer for sure you tweaked FVWM2 and GTK2/QT3 themes to create weird and crazy things such as a dock composed of minified thumbnails created from windows, later done on Windows' Aero taskbar.

Like this:

https://fvwm.sourceforge.net/screenshots/desktops/

2003:

https://fvwm.sourceforge.net/screenshots/desktops/Nuno_Alexa...

2001:

https://fvwm.sourceforge.net/screenshots/desktops/Tavis_Orma...

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micahdeath 1234 days ago
I think the (OS name here) start menu is the hamburger menu. Except on mac, they have several icons that are hamburger menus =/ It's common, just different icon.
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anthk 1234 days ago
No, not all. The start menu is a launcher icon with the most common software. Fvwm had a similar root menu, but with no icon for it, you just clicked anywhere. The hamburguer menu today it's used as a application menu replacement.

Back in the day it wasn't used, period. Any software, either Win32, Motif, Delphi, Athena or such used a menu to access the most common items, the settings and a toolbar for functions. There was no icon replacing all of it.

The same with Macs. Mac OS 8, 9, and then, X. No hamburguer menu. The uberknown Mac menu and a set of Cocoa icons. That it.

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