The logo of the goose is even more unexpected. Friends who came into contact with OICQ earlier must remember all kinds of classic anime characters used by the avatars in OICQ at that time. At that time, OICQ probably didn't consider that it would be as big as it is now, so it didn't consider the issue of big copyright. They directly used the avatars of many foreign classic anime characters, and maybe even randomly picked a penguin image to make the icon of the whole software. Later, when the software became bigger and began to pay attention to copyright issues, I asked someone to redraw these avatars. In fact, the shadow of the oldest version of the avatar can be seen in many redrawn avatars. As the facade of the whole software, of course, the software icon should be designed to look good, but the image of penguin has remained. After all, this penguin is so popular with netizens.

1. Penguins live at the end of the earth. Represented by penguins, it also implies that QQ network can also contact the two ends of the earth-the network is everywhere and communication is more convenient.

2.QICQ is the predecessor of QQ, which uses the penguin icon of Linux, so OICQ icon is a little penguin, and later changed to QQ, which also uses the penguin image.

According to the Linux penguin logo:

Penguins are the symbolic animals of Antarctica. According to international conventions, Antarctica belongs to all mankind, not to any country in the world. No country has the right to include Antarctica in its territory.

Linux chooses Penguin as its symbol, which also shows that open source Linux belongs to all mankind, and no company has the right to be private.

There are many stories behind penguins.

(linuxbyte.net, 65438+February 27th) At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, her interview was not a serious technical or industrial topic, but a visit to the origin of the mascot symbol of Linux-penguin Tux.

I don't think many people know how penguin dresses become a symbol of Linux. Why did you choose penguins? Instead of choosing lions and tigers? Some people say that because Linus is Finnish, he chose penguins. Some people say that Linus had to choose penguins because all other animal designs were used up. With this question, I brought back the harvest of Jennifer's interview, wishing everyone a happy New Year and smiling like Tux.

For a long time, some people abroad have complained that Tux looks too much like Simpson in funny comics, or some people think that this image is not serious enough (some netizens have investigated before, and some people think that the image of Linux should be the flame of Raytheon's hammer or the atmosphere of IBM).

Linus, on the other hand, thinks that the logo of Linux should be an interesting and lovely pattern, and an interesting and friendly pattern means that you should choose an animal logo. But many people in the Linux industry are not looking for cuteness and friendliness. Some people think that the logo of Linux should not be "cute" at all, but should be serious.

1996, the five-year-old Linux operating system began to be widely used in the world, and Linus began to consider creating a logo for this operating system. But his thinking scope is still in the animal world: albatross, platypus, eagle, and once thought of fox. In this way, animals flashed through Linus' mind. Finally, he had an epiphany and remembered that he had been bitten by a bird in Australia.

After choosing Penguin as the logo, linus described in the Linux kernel email list of 1996: "Don't be too fat, and it should be sitting posture? Imagine a bag full of beans. " (Larry Ewing gave him the idea. At that time, Larry Ewing, a 22-year-old electronic engineering undergraduate, saw the discussion about logo in the mailing list while working in the Institute of Scientific Computing. The enthusiastic artist found painting penguins more interesting than writing graduation thesis. )

Ewing used GIMP to create the basic form of penguin. Just as he was about to announce it, he suddenly thought, what would this penguin look like if it were in someone else's hands? Therefore, under the premise of keeping Ewing and GIMP names, he allowed users to add and modify the shape of this penguin freely, and also derived the shapes of many penguins now. Ewing is currently the developer of the west, and he also wrote the monkey pattern in the west.

As for the penguin's name: Tux. Because penguins always wear black and white clothes, people think the name comes from the word Txuedo. Actually, Tux is the abbreviation of Torvalds' UniX.

Now, penguin tuxedo has become a symbol of Linux, or a brand. The smiling tuxedo has attracted many computer lovers who love freedom all over the world. The meaning of Tux itself is also developing with the growth of Linux. According to Ewing's words, "This is really interesting. I only spent more than 20 hours drawing a penguin and four or five years writing program code. But what I know about penguins is far more than any code. "