[vintagedave]

Time for one of my favourite Youtube videos, by Posy (Michiel de Boer.) 'Mouse cursor history (and why I made my own).'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YThelfB2fvg

It runs through the history of mouse cursors, as well as problems with some of the standard ones, and shows, among other things, historical cursors which were straight and not tilted.

It is one of those amazing videos that make the internet worthwhile, is short, and is by the author of Posy's Cursor Pack, http://www.michieldb.nl/other/cursors/

[itomato]

I'm not sure this is accurate. He shows the IIGS cursor as the Lisa "Color mode" cursor, for one thing.

He never mentions the NeXT environment, DPS and differences in DPI, their own black and white arrow cursor, and how that cursor actually came into Mac OS X, not the one from System 1 and onward.

Hmm.

[loceng]

Seems like this should be in a list somewhere with that big sized keyboard history book that was on HN last week?

[Sakos]

Oh, dang, I can't believe I missed that. Would've loved to get a copy of it. It looks amazing.

[Shorel]

Great video and great link.

I use his set on Windows (It looks awesome) and on Ubuntu, the Linux port from here:

https://github.com/simtrami/posy-improved-cursor-linux

[hacb]

It was really interesting and well-made, thanks for sharing!