+50 Custom Cursors to Make Desktop Great Again

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The web is a strange place. Sometimes you get your browser to load a site, and all you want is an image replacement. 

Or maybe you're working with a particular design and just want to use a particular image as a custom cursor. Whatever it is, I think we can agree – the whole thing seems a bit unprofessional and tacky, but I'm sure everyone's used images for cursors at some point in their lives. 

What is Cursor?

The option to customize the mouse cursor or pointer when it hovers over links and buttons lets you change the old Windows default arrow pointer to any icon of your liking. 

This can also be done by using simple tools such as Paint or Notepad, but there are other applications designed specifically for this purpose. Customizing the cursor is easy, and anyone with a computer can do it in just a few moments.

The arrow needs to point in the right direction usually towards the specific button or icon that you are trying to click. Computer cursors actually have a lot that goes into them for them to be able to do this. 

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Generally, they are not just an image but also include tell-tale code behind how they need to run and function. This is especially true when they are used as a part of a website.

The first computer mouse was made by Doug Engelbart who built his own mouse so he could move the cursor easily. 

The next generation of the computer mouse was improved by Bill English in a company named Apple, and he changed the color of the mouse from gray to white. 

In 1980, Bill Gates sold his software company called Microsoft to Paul Allen for one million dollars.

Personal Computers History

The Personal Computer history is an interesting one beginning in the late 1950s, which saw the first efforts of programming computers for fun. 

From things like Spacewar!, to John Kemeny and Thomas Kurtz at Dartmouth College, who designed BASIC. 

As well as an amazing game called Adventure that was written on a DEC PDP-1 by Warren Robinett, there’s also a programming language called Tiny BASIC. 

The list of developments and innovations is long, but this article aims to strike a balance between historical facts and very personal computer history and milestones that otherwise got left behind and forgotten about …

Personal computer history got wings in the 1970s when Intel released the first microprocessor, a 4-bit chip. 

This paved the way for personal computer pioneers to build computers that users could purchase and operate on their own. Without this technology, you might still be looking for ways to print pictures of your children or business.

Anyway 

I hope you liked my custom cursors collection. When this tiny little point allows us to navigate all screens. 

Here are the other tools which I’m developing.