Instead of “taking the Apple logo in vain”, as Steve Jobs has put it, the keyboard shortcuts to menu items had to be something different than the emblem of the computer manufacturer. Susan Kare, a bitmap artist at Apple, had found a symbol for the key that is known today to many Macintosh users as the command or apple key. Originally though, this icon “was [and still is] used in Sweden to indicate an interesting feature or attraction in a campground.”

More background on this and other matters regarding macintosh trivia can be found on folklore.org.

via digg: How the unusual symbol for the Apple “Command Key” came to be

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