• potpotato@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    How do play, pause, or stop icons mean anything? They were around for decades before me and I just learned that was how those actions were communicated.

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      17 hours ago

      Likely in the way that the previous commenter described. They’re not wrong, it just wasn’t a question of how. It was more that sometimes the transmission of information fails.