Elon Musk just X’d out the sharing, caring ethos of the internet once and for all

The blue bird is dead. Long live the black X.

As the Twitter birdie flew off to logo heaven this week, something else also seemed to be vanishing. A whole aesthetic.

The user-friendly design that has defined tech from the first smiling Macintosh in 1984, through the chirping aviary of social media in the present day, is rapidly losing ground. In its place…