I
think it was fairly ripped from
Macintosh's trash can. I think the
analogy is pretty obvious following the "
desktop" theme,
Microsoft should have just used a trash can as well...
I thought at first anyway.
You toss stuff in a
trash can, if you want you can dig through and get it out before its emptied. There is no recycling truck that comes and empties your
Windows recycle bin and recycles the materials within.
Well...then again, it
is recycled. When you empty the recycle bin you free up those
bytes for re-use by other data. The files aren't just tossed in a
landfill somewhere to
poison the earth.
So maybe recycle bin is the best analogy. Prepare to soft link "who gives a shit"