Today I learned: modern versions of macOS still contain cursor graphics from NeXTSTEP

[Wowfunhappy]

/System/Library/Frameworks/GLUT.framework/Versions/A/Resources

This is kind of blowing my mind right now.

Are they used anywhere? Surely Apple didn't just forget to delete them for more than 20 years?

 

[AutomaticApple]

/System/Library/Frameworks/GLUT.framework/Versions/A/Resources

This is kind of blowing my mind right now.

Are they used anywhere? Surely Apple didn't just forget to delete them for more than 20 years?

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There is an icon like this that's still in macOS 11 (the image below seems to just be a mockup though). I'm not going to go through the system files trying to find it again. It looks like it came straight out of the original iPod/PowerPC days.

 

[leman]

GLUT is a really old OpenGL utility library. Its not really used anymore, but some legacy software might import a function or two, so there is no harm in just leaving it around. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was indeed lying there for last 20 years

 

[Wowfunhappy]

There is an icon like this that's still in macOS 11 (the image below seems to just be a mockup though). I'm not going to go through the system files trying to find it again. It looks like it came straight out of the original iPod/PowerPC days.
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IIRC that one is the default web page for apache. So still used in a sense—you'll see if it you enable apache.

NeXTSTEP stuff though is a lot older.

 

[AutomaticApple]

IIRC that one is the default web page for apache. So still used in a sense—you'll see if it you enable apache.

Still outdated though!

Windows is still more inconsistent by a landslide.

 

[SoupyTwist]

Not sure if this is the exact one AutomaticApple was thinking of, but I found the "Powered by Mac OS X" banners in Big Sur under /Library/WebServer/Documents/.

I recall however that the first time I ran PHP on Big Sur it warned me that PHP was deprecated in macOS, so in future versions some of the web tools built into macOS may be removed, possibly taking with it this brushed metal masterpiece.

 

[AutomaticApple]

Not sure if this is the exact one AutomaticApple was thinking of, but I found the "Powered by Mac OS X" banners in Big Sur under /Library/WebServer/Documents/.

I recall however that the first time I ran PHP on Big Sur it warned me that PHP was deprecated in macOS, so in future versions some of the web tools built into macOS may be removed, possibly taking with it this brushed metal masterpiece.

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Yup, that's the one I was talking about!