[reaperducer]

So what does ⌘ represent?

The revisionist history is that it's a Swedish map symbol repurposed.

People who were there will tell you that it's called "double infinity" and was used because the regular infinity symbol lacked visual weight and it was thought might be too similar to other keys.

[SeanLuke]

Susan Kare selected the symbol herself. I wouldn't exactly call her explanation "revisionist".

[_shantaram]

Macintosh Folklore disagrees. That's literally as close to "people who were there" as one can get.

https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Swedish_Campgrou...

[mtlmtlmtlmtl]

Interesting. Though I'm curious why infinity was even a consideration in the first place.

[reaperducer]

Interesting. Though I'm curious why infinity was even a consideration in the first place.

That part I don't know. Maybe just because it's geeky, and the original Mac team was certainly that; even the ones involved in its physical design.