This brings me back to my childhood and building web pages when JavaScript elements to add whimsy and whatnot to the page. Was it particularly attractive? No.

This brings me back to my childhood and building web pages when JavaScript elements to add whimsy and whatnot to the page. Was it particularly attractive? No. Was there much function (except for a few screen types and maybe cursor styles, not really). Was it fun and did it make the internet feel exciting and like a truly new and unique medium? Hell yes. Love seeing this stuff preserved. And add me to the list of people that now misses skeuomorphism from the aughts and the Delicious Generation of Mac apps. Lickable icons and interfaces. I still love them, mostly because it reminds me of when software had personality. That’s the thing about the late-90s to early 2000s web aesthetic: it had personality. I love stark and clean Swiss-influenced designs as much any anyone else. But software, websites, and hardware was always best when it had personality.