[CharlesW]

None of the Stack Overflow answers mention Alan Kay, who created the angled mouse cursor at PARC. When asked about this¹, he responded:

"The Parc mouse cursor appearance was done (actually by me) because in a 16x16 grid of one-bit pixels (what the Alto at Parc used for a cursor) this gives you a nice arrowhead if you have one side of the arrow vertical and the other angled (along with other things there, I designed and made many of the initial bitmap fonts). Then it stuck, as so many things in computing do."

¹ https://jameshk.com/mouse-cursor

[jasomill]

To see this mouse cursor in action, go to

https://archives.loomcom.com/contraltojs/

and follow the instructions under "Running Smalltalk 76".

[arduanika]

Nor did they mention Mark Zuckerberg, who is still holding his head up high in the face of negative press:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/03/faceboo...

giving the appearance that the mouse is tilted.

[gymbeaux]

Hail, Zucker