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I wouldn’t be surprised :) The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion, I see it a lot on flyers, web art… just not yet in computer applications! I gu

I wouldn’t be surprised :) The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion, I see it a lot on flyers, web art… just not yet in computer applications! I guess that’s a matter of time. Check out the flyer for this party: https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-magdalena-bay-cobrah-dolly-bing-bing/ https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-mag... They used vectors, looks like the Windows 95 aesthetics that was so connected to pixel survives this transition quite well!

squiggleblaz 6y ago
That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.
- xattt 6y ago
  Gradient titlebars were the killer feature for Windows 98.
- nobleach 6y ago
  Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier.... Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a warez site" variety of "beta tester") So I "enjoyed" some of those features pretty early on.
lucideer 6y ago
> already back into fashion That seems more like retro/throwback fashion (which is always a thing, in every era) than the fundamental principles of that aesthetic being incorporated into modern design (which is what I would typically consider actually being "in fashion"). Still, nice to consider we're at the point where that's what we're framing as retro. No longer is it System 1 or CRT terminals.
bartread 6y ago
> The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion It's certainly big in vaporwave and, to some extent, synthwave. Obviously both genres of music but also, and particularly the former, very strong aesthetics.
andrepd 6y ago
That's vaporwave, a specific aesthetic style, and it's quite different from Win98 design making a mainstream comeback :p

squiggleblaz 6y ago

That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.

xattt 6y ago
Gradient titlebars were the killer feature for Windows 98.
nobleach 6y ago
Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier.... Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a warez site" variety of "beta tester") So I "enjoyed" some of those features pretty early on.

lucideer 6y ago

> already back into fashion That seems more like retro/throwback fashion (which is always a thing, in every era) than the fundamental principles of that aesthetic being incorporated into modern design (which is what I would typically consider actually being "in fashion"). Still, nice to consider we're at the point where that's what we're framing as retro. No longer is it System 1 or CRT terminals.

bartread 6y ago

> The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion It's certainly big in vaporwave and, to some extent, synthwave. Obviously both genres of music but also, and particularly the former, very strong aesthetics.

andrepd 6y ago

That's vaporwave, a specific aesthetic style, and it's quite different from Win98 design making a mainstream comeback :p