The red circle-slash is one of our most pervasive symbols. It’s everywhere. Yet we struggle to explain it.
Today’s @tedium ponders this icon of prohibition.
https://tedium.co/2024/03/09/red-circle-slash-no-symbol-history/
@ernie @tedium I’m old enough to remember ….
(I know, I should just stop there, but I won’t.)
… when the symbol you’re writing about became pervasive in the U.S. The name I remember from the beginning was “international NO symbol,” but I can’t tell you when that was - early 70s-ish? And “international” was definitely a dog whistle for “not invented here.” Anyway, from the beginning that’s what I knew it as.
You just should have asked ME, Ernie!
