So you're telling me it isn't a finger on a button?
It's one of the most ubiquitous symbols around, and one you likely look at every day. But it turns out the power on/off symbol is more than just, er, a plain old circle and line.
Comedian Bec Hill recently took to Twitter to share her recent discovery that the symbol actually represents the binary code for on and off: a 1 and a 0. And judging by the response, plenty of users thought it depicted a number of different things. I only recently discovered that the on/off symbol represents a 1 and a 0 - as in, binary for on/off.Anyone got any other symbol revelations that blew their minds? pic.twitter.com/jAp3MWoB5fAs you might expect, the tweet has been met with a series of"I was today years old..." responses – along with descriptions of what Twitter users thought the symbol represented.
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