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> System 1 (1984) had check marks on the menu and "x boxes", which are equivalent, but not checkboxes afaik

I think it had (https://andymatuschak.org/files/papers/Apple%20Human%20Inter..., page 56)

I don’t know whether those were the first, but https://skeuomorphic.design/p/from-paper-ballots-to-pixels-t... claims they were, in the sense that the Mac made radio buttons different from toggle buttons.

Does anybody know in what cultures a checkmark would be inappropriate, as that page claims?



Thanks, that's a nice pdf: so what I called "x boxes" were actually named "check boxes" (although they didn't use the check mark symbol)




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