I've never really understood what this icon, that looks like an oil drum
and is commonly used to refer to a database, is actually supposed to represent.
What is it?
As a matter of fact, I've been searching for any kind of reading material about the history of the symbols commonly used in web app icons and haven't come up with anything helpful or interesting. Is there a good resource to read up on that?
Answer
It represents a stack of hard disks. For example, from wikipedia:
"RAID diagram icon symbolizing the array of disks"
Yes, this is talking about hard disks but the basic concept is the same.
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