Wingdings Translator

Charles Bigelow and Kris Holmes were the creators of one of the most enigmatic sources in our computers: Wingdings translator, a font that replaces traditional letters with symbols. Although it was more interesting that it remained as one of the mysteries of the computer past, its creators responded only this week the reason of being of Wingdings.

Voiced by Vox, Bigelow and Holmes explained that before, when computers were just beginning to become popular, hard drives did not have enough space to store images, and the quality of those left a lot to be desired, not to mention the slow Internet speed for download them The only reason it was created was to provide the user with the possibility to interleave images easily and quickly in their texts, despite the effort that many put to try to decipher what was the relationship between the symbol and the letter that it formed. wingdings translator

Conspiracies

The mysterious Wingdings symbols led many to form conspiracy theories as a result of the relationship between symbols and letters. The most famous case of this became known after the attack on the Twin Towers in 2001. wingdings translator Certain users found that by writing Q33 (flight number) and NY (New York) in Wingdings, the symbols represented an airplane, two towers, a skull and a star of David.