This is the first in an occasional series about abandoned Internet icons. It was spring of 1997. "Mmmbop" was the pop song of the moment and unlimited access to AOL cost $19.95 a month. Dial-up ...

Adrienne LaFrance at the Atlantic spoke to the designer behind the logo, JoRoan Lazaro, and he explained how he devised the famed symbol. “The [running man] design came about because I was ...