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The sad thing about this joke is I kinda miss this UI ...

• weatherpattern 10y ago
  I miss it too. When XP launched I used classic mode for years.
• tobr 10y ago
  I wonder if might see UI fashion go full circle and come back to this style at some point. The flat style of the past 5 years came in reaction to the over-rendered skeuomorphic look that had been growing out of control. But I feel like when I look back at what Windows and Mac OS looked like in the 90s, it almost feels fresh again. It doesn't attempt to look like a photo, it just uses very a simplified, graphical style of light and shadow to hint at affordances and visual hierarchy.
  • frik 10y ago
    I miss it too. I kept iOS6 on one of my iPads and stay with Win7 (instead of the ugly as butt newer editions). Win9x classic theme, XP's Luna theme, Vista/Win7 glass theme, iOS 1-6 theme were all so nice. I can also live with iOS7+ theme and actually quite like Android 5+ material theme. Older UI themes were often done by real experts. XP's Luna theme was done by Frog Design. Some newer designs seems like be done as an afterthought, "designed" by an color blind programmer.
• jankotek 10y ago
  I miss the speed and features. 15 years ago email or IRC applications (The Bat, mIRC) started in milliseconds, and had tons of features. Today webapps take forever to start and are severely limited.
  • TomMarius 10y ago
    Exactly. I feel really sad that my computer from 10 years ago with Pentium3, 256 MB of RAM and a 40 GB HDD felt faster than my current i7-7770 with 64 GB of RAM and a SSD.
• mabynogy 10y ago
  The copy.sh emulator of Windows 98: https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98 https://copy.sh/v86/?profile=windows98