Old point-and-click adventure games also used hand icons quite a lot, often richly-designed gloved ones, which starts to hint at that direction. That icon was tweaked slightly over the course of classic System/MacOS to add things like a countdown waiting animation: MacPaint (on the original 1984 Macintosh) used it as the "pan" icon: The open/grabbing hand cursor, though, is much older, and was designed by Susan Kare (who did most of the icons for the original Mac). Had the pointing-hand cursor never existed then a whole bunch of design assumptions might not have been transferred from HyperCard’s ‘link’ to HTML’s and we might have preempted the many years of work done to sort out web accessibility for machines and the full spectrum of human beings. I'm struggling to corroborate that claim. HyperCard was a big influence on some of Tim Berners-Lee’s team at Cern, and many of the hypermedia conventions it established were carried through into Mosaic.
The Mickey Mouse watch famously used Mickey's hands as clock hands, which seems to be the earliest example I can find of using Mickey's hand as a pointer:Īs far as I can tell, the pointing hand cursor originated as a PC cursor in HyperCard as mentioned in Bart's answer, and was adopted for use on the web pretty much right from the beginning as noted by Mark Griffiths: The correct answer is Walt Disney, but tangentially.
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