A quick walkthrough of the history of Loading Spinners
The Loading spinner or “Throbbers” are graphic control elements that indicate
that a computer program or application is performing an action in the background.
These background actions include, downloading contents, communication with
an external device or complex calculations.
This is different from the progress bar because it doe not indicate any specific increments
to show how much of an action has been completed.
The early versions of the loading spinners were called throbbers.
NCSA Logo animated when Mosaic was downloading a web page.
Mosaic Browser
Netscape over took Mosaic as the leading web browser. The N looked like it was expanding and contracting.
NetscapeBrowser
The Xerox Star Workstation used an hourglass to indicate that it was busy and unavailable.
Now most throwers and loading spinners are small.
Sometimes they live on their own.
Sometimes they take the place of the cursor since users are labors alswyas looking that the cursor.
