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| S Nov 20, 2023 at 17:30 | history | suggested | Amazon Dies In Darkness | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Apr 22, 2014 at 17:47 | comment | added | DA01 | @Kax I like 'toilet'! Think of the interactions and sound effects! | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 20:52 | comment | added | Kaz | @Luke what wold they have chosen? The real world metaphors are not exactly numerous. Drain? Toilet? A Recycle Bin is a better metaphor than a Trash Can, because recovering accidentally discarded stuff from recycle bins is somewhat cleaner than recovering it from trash cans. Also, when the trash or recycle bin or whatever is "emptied", the bits are in fact perfectly recycled for making new files. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 16:37 | comment | added | Luke | Although I think this is a very important point, technically this answer really just tells us why MS did not choose "Trash", not why they chose "Recycling Bin" instead. They could have chosen something else. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 16:27 | comment | added | Panzercrisis | @O.R.Mapper I think he's comparing "Apple's 'Trash'" to a piece of trash. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 9:32 | comment | added | O. R. Mapper | @leigero: Concerning the Bin part, which could be a pun related to Binaries? I've always wondered about whether that was intentional, too. | |
| Apr 21, 2014 at 6:59 | comment | added | leigero | I feel like there's some pun-like humor in this. | |
| Apr 19, 2014 at 14:56 | vote | accept | Anirban Nag 'tintinmj' | ||
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| Apr 18, 2014 at 19:19 | history | answered | nobody | CC BY-SA 3.0 |