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>> That's... exactly how meaningful icons are born. First you put icon with text, and once everyone understands the meaning of the icon, you remove the text, because it's not necessary anymore.

> First you put icon with text

They skipped this step. It's a really, really important step. And you have it to leave it for a while.

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Office 97 already had exactly the same icons for cut-copy-paste. Rename icon is from Windows 8.1 (2013). Share icon is present in Windows XP. Trash can appears in Windows 95, although the meaning "to delete" was indeed introduced in Windows 11, previously it was the trash itself.

In other words, people who were born alongside with four of these icons are already sending their own kids to schools.

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