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Are there some shenanigans here with the publication date? The screenshots looked surprisingly large and high-quality for something published in 2001. I looked

• roelschroeven 2y ago
  The screenshots are 640x480. That's most likely simply a full screen screenshot. The whole style of the write-up looks much more modern than 2001 though. I assume it was first published on a different URL and with a different style (or at least it would very much surprise that someone would write about Winpopup nowadays).
  • mtlynch 2y ago
    That's true, I guess it's more the quality. Were people publishing lossless PNG screenshots in 2001? My memory of screenshots of that time was that they were super compressed GIFs and JPEGs.
    • roelschroeven 2y ago
      Right, good question. I can't remember where in time the transition was from small heavily compressed to high quality full size images in relation to 2001, nor when exactly the transition to PNG was. But now that I think about, 2001 seems early indeed. I agree: something is weird.
• susam 2y ago
  Hello! The article is indeed from 2001 from a different site of mine. The post was imported into my current blog a couple of years ago when I was consolidating my different websites into one. The screenshots were added at the same time. I thought it might be a good idea to illustrate what the software looked like by taking screenshots of Windows 98 in an emulator. To avoid any confusion, I'll add an update date to the article, clarifying that the screenshots were not obtained in 2001. Thanks for calling this out!