Comment on Why is the caret made, and why does it blink?

bstix@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s called a cursor.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(user_interface)

Cursor is Latin for ‘runner’. A cursor is a name given to the transparent slide engraved with a hairline used to mark a point on a slide rule. The term was then transferred to computers through analogy

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