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by IAmBroom 359 days ago
> The name “radio button” of course comes from physical buttons, but those were often square.

It's just one opinion versus another, but in my experience early radios often had round buttons. I'm thinking of the kind of radios that preceded TVs.

Cassette decks certainly had rectangular "one choice only" buttons, but those came along decades later.