<p>I keep running across this loading image</p>

<p><a href="http://georgia.ubuntuforums.com/images/misc/lightbox_progress.gif" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://georgia.ubuntuforums.com/images/misc/lightbox_progress.gif</a></p>

<p>which seems to have entered into existence in the last 18 months.  All of a sudden it is in every application and is on every web site.  Not wanting to be left out is there somewhere I can get this logo, perhaps with a transparent background?  Also where did it come from?  </p>

[{'answer_id': 53374, 'author': 'Paige Ruten', 'author_id': 813, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/813', 'pm_score': 5, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>You can get many different AJAX loading animations in any colour you want here: <a href="http://www.ajaxload.info/" rel="noreferrer">ajaxload.info</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 53375, 'author': 'Kyle Cronin', 'author_id': 658, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/658', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I believe the animation came from the Mac OS X loading screen. Here\'s a similar one with a transparent background:</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://homepage.mac.com/xraydoc/.Pictures/spinner.gif">alt text http://homepage.mac.com/xraydoc/.Pictures/spinner.gif</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 53398, 'author': 'akdom', 'author_id': 145, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/145', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I think it\'s just a general extension to the normal clock-face style loading icon.  The Firefox <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throbber" rel="nofollow noreferrer">throbber</a> is the first example of that style that I remember coming across; the only real difference between that and the current trend of straight lines is that the constituent symbols have been stretched to give a crisper look, moving back to more of a many-handed clock emblem.</p>\n'}]
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