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		asplake on Nov 5, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Lost Key of QWERTY (2016) Spoiler: an early example of the hamburger menu

nkrisc on Nov 5, 2019 | [–]

We call it the "kabob" menu. If it's sideways, it's "ants on a log"

throwaway744678 on Nov 5, 2019 | [–]

Expanding on that (nice!) idea: could it be an "everything else" symbol? Since a lot of glyphs are missing from the typewriter, this could be some kind of placeholder for missing characters meant to be manually overwritten after typing?

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