Susan Kare designed a weird, blocky icon for the original Apple Macintosh in 1983 that vaguely resembled a dog, but users constantly debated whether the pixelated creature was actually meant to be a small cow.

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Susan Kare designed a weird, blocky icon for the original Apple Macintosh in 1983 that vaguely resembled a dog, but users constantly debated whether the pixelated creature was actually meant to be a small cow. Apple officially embraced the ambiguity by naming the mascot Clarus the Dogcow, establishing that she made a sound described specifically as Moof and hiding her in various operating system menus. A multi-billion dollar tech conglomerate spent actual time engineering deep corporate lore around an ambiguous black-and-white pixel blob just to entertain bored typography nerds. It completely exposes the truth that early computing was driven by exhausted programmers desperately trying to amuse themselves with idiotic inside jokes!