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icon not tell if I'm going crazy...

Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2013-09-24 13:34:55 I swear I remember seeing a globe in the UI back in the day, but darned if I can remember where it was used. Maybe an icon, or part of a control panel screen. There's a tiny one as part of some Appleshare elements, but I'm thinking there was a large-ish, almost 32×32 one. Similarly, I'm positive I saw a "multiple user" type UI element composed of two of those profiles used in the info dialog boxes, but can't track that down either. Since I can't recall specifics, Google image search has not turned up anything useful. I'm pretty sure these were in the Mac OS itself, but maybe I'm thinking of a 3rd party software.

Posted by: Anonymous Freak on 2013-09-24 13:42:23 You mean like in the System 7 Control Panel? (Map and Users & Groups.) Edit: Or the System 6 "Map" Control panel icon, here seen on a System 7 machine:

Posted by: markyb86 on 2013-09-25 00:20:55 :-* 😉

Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2013-09-26 08:33:17 Yeah, pretty sure the Group icon with the two faces is what I was thinking about. The single user one looks right. Now I just need to find a screenshot of it. FWIW, I'm basing some of the dingbats in my new font on Mac UI elements.

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