Swedish Campground Susan Kare, designer of the graphical user interface of the first Macintosh in 1984, in an interview in 2000: »So I was pouring through books of symbols, and I thought it was a sign on Swedish campgrounds that meant — interesting feature — or something to look at that was interesting. So that seemed to fit.«

Source: Susan Kare in an Interview with Alex Pang, september 8, 2000, library.stanford.edu/mac/primary/interviews/kare/

Andy Hertzfeld, one of the creators of the first Macintosh of 1984, has the same story: “It’s difficult to come up with a small icon meaning “command”, and we couldn’t think of anything initially. Our bitmap artist, Susan Kare, had a comprehensive international symbol dictionary and she leafed through it, looking for an appropriate symbol. […] Finally she came across a floral symbol used on Swedish maps to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a historical site or campground. […] Everybody liked it, and 20 years later—even in OS X—the Macintosh still has a little bit of a Swedish campground in it.”

Source: Andy Hertzfeld: Revolution in the valley, O’Reilly Media Inc, USA 2005

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