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The spinning pinwheel is a type of progress indicator and a variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. [ 1 ] Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refer to it as the spinning wait cursor , [ 2 ] but it is also known by other names.
A "spinning wheel of death" used to promote Internet Slowdown Day. Internet Slowdown Day, part of the "Battle for the Net" initiative, [1] was a series of protests against the repeal of net neutrality laws coordinated by websites and advocacy groups in the United States occurring on September 10, 2014. [2]
A throbber animation like that seen on many websites when a blocking action is being performed in the background. A throbber, also known as a loading icon, is an animated graphical control element used to show that a computer program is performing an action in the background (such as downloading content, conducting intensive calculations or communicating with an external device).
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The cursor for the Windows Command Prompt (appearing as an underscore at the end of the line). In most command-line interfaces or text editors, the text cursor, also known as a caret, [4] is an underscore, a solid rectangle, or a vertical line, which may be flashing or steady, indicating where text will be placed when entered (the insertion point).
The Macintosh II is the first to use the death chimes, using the Apple Sound Chip to play a loud and eerie upward major arpeggio, with different chimes on many models. The Macintosh Quadra , Centris , Performa , LC , and the Macintosh Classic II play a generally softer and lower pitched version of the upward major arpeggio, followed by three or ...
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The Windows wait cursor, informally the Blue circle of death (known as the hourglass cursor until Windows Vista) is a throbber that indicates that an application is busy performing an operation. It can be accompanied by an arrow if the operation is being performed in the background.