Apple's history is hiding in a Mac font
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·August 4, 2025plorg
rbanffy
I absolutely love the way Windows computers show up as a beige low-budget monitor with a BSOD. I wonder how they show up these days - I no longer have Windows boxes on my network.
pdntspa
They still show up that way, same with linux servers running Samba.
To be completely honest, the joke is getting a little bit old. They could at least update the graphic. But Windows has not been that crashy since Windows ME.
Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default.
runjake
> Maybe they could update it with something that pokes fun at how much Windows spies on you by default.
The issue there is that Apple collects just about as much telemetry on end users. I'm unsure how much data either give or sell to third parties.
sgt
How do I paste the gid* fonts into TextEdit, for example? Only UTF8 fonts seem to work.
pimlottc
As mentioned in yesterday's article [0], they can't be used because they haven't been mapped to a Unicode code point:
> (A note on most of these characters is that they don't actually map to any defined Unicode code point; they are unconnected glyphs. Font Book will show them but you can't really copy them anywhere. A tool like Ultra Character Map will let you at least grab a graphical representation and paste it somewhere, as I have done here.)
0: https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...
rbanffy
You can open them in a tool such as FontForge and force an encoding. You might need to add some padding at the beginning so that you get the symbols on a usable range.
shortrounddev2
From a time when apple had soul
rbanffy
Don't be so harsh. There's a lot of great people working there, committed to make great computers and software. It's not an easy task.
NoSalt
They are probably talking about the company as a whole. Back when there were easter eggs and the UI was more raw, yet more "approachable".
I stopped using Apple Macintosh OS after Snow Leopard, aftger they started making it more difficult than necessary to access the full power of the Unix underpinnings. In some way, I miss Macintosh OS 7.5, 8, and 9 more than OS X.
reaperducer
You're mad about lack of Unix power, but pine for OS 7.5?
shortrounddev2
I'm sure there's lots of creative people there, but unfortunately they work for a company that seems to determined to just keep going back to the well over and over
I'm assuming this came up in reference to this post from yesterday:
https://tenfourfox.blogspot.com/2025/08/mac-history-echoes-i...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44819962