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Am I crazy to be nostalgic for UI color schemes like this? It's the article's screenshot of Alias/3, a 1993 modeller on SGI IRIX: https://camo.githubuserconten
by pavlov 4y ago
Am I crazy to be nostalgic for UI color schemes like this? It's the article's screenshot of Alias/3, a 1993 modeller on SGI IRIX:
https://camo.githubusercontent.com/18e1b1dc60d23f72852f2a844c584bc1c8d475eb353c27ce5f700adbade6ae8e/68747470733a2f2f692e696d6775722e636f6d2f497974554b546c2e706e67 https://camo.githubusercontent.com/18e1b1dc60d23f72852f2a844...
Ok, the non-proportional fonts gets an unqualified thumbs down. But the warm beige and teal — I could chill out to this instead of the endless cool expanses of 100% white and 98% white featured in today's desktop operating systems.
The computer where this application ran probably looked like this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Onyx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Onyx
Black and purple for the hardware, beige and teal for the software. Perfect 1990s contrasts!
- ASalazarMX 4y agoI think I am the crazy one, because that UI looks more futuristic than some of the ones we got right now, with look like a kindergarten.