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It's interesting this article makes no mention of Encarta. Encarta 98, 98, 2000 were the precursors to both Watercolor and Metro. Encarta quite honestly had a

by basch 1y ago

It's interesting this article makes no mention of Encarta. Encarta 98, 98, 2000 were the precursors to both Watercolor and Metro. Encarta quite honestly had a beautiful typography heavy, high contrast interface, one that still shapes my design/ui preferences to this day. If anyone needs a new wallpaper for the week.. https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi png and https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi_202006 https://archive.org/details/bliss-600dpi_202006 tiff

mikestorrent 1y ago
Encarta even led the charge on Windows 3.1, where Encarta 94 had the now-classic _ [] X buttons at the top, with custom titlebars, instead of the ^ v classic Windows 3.1 pair.
- lproven 1y ago
  Are you sure? https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/e282ac57-e280-93c3-af26-4411c3a4efbf https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/e282ac57-e280-93c3-af26-44...
  - mark_undoio 1y ago
    Encarta 95 had it - I remember thinking how cool it was that it looked like Win 95.
    - Lammy 1y ago
      Office 95 & 97 do this too on NT 3.51, kinda; just their inner MDI document title bars: http://toastytech.com/guis/miscnt351office97.png http://toastytech.com/guis/miscnt351office97.png
  - mikestorrent 1y ago
    Must've been newer - but definitely on 3.1
steve1977 1y ago
Microsoft Money also already had the flat look that became more popular later.
- basch 1y ago
  I think it actually started for Encarta in 95, but that was ironically for Mac. It wasn’t quite as polished and consistent. I don’t remember having Encarta 96, but it appears to have had it too.
Lammy 1y ago
> If anyone needs a new wallpaper for the week. Neat. That spot on Route 12/121† is one of my favorite places to take people when they visit the Bay Area. My pic from a few months ago: https://i.imgur.com/e2jbdkx.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/e2jbdkx.jpeg One thing that puzzles me though is how the story is always told that Charles O'Rear was on his way from Napa to San Francisco, i.e. westbound on the highway, but having been there it feels like it could only have been the other way around due to the angle of the POV compared to the road and the fact that when you're eastbound there's a big left-hand curve which commands your sightline to the left so it's easy to keep looking past the road and straight into Bliss: https://www.vintag.es/2022/08/bliss.html https://www.vintag.es/2022/08/bliss.html †That particular stretch of road is both: https://cahighways.org/ROUTE012.html https://cahighways.org/ROUTE012.html https://cahighways.org/ROUTE121.html https://cahighways.org/ROUTE121.html
- basch 1y ago
  https://ibb.co/Q7PHPNhj https://ibb.co/Q7PHPNhj https://i.ibb.co/Y4cdckJT/bliss25.webp https://i.ibb.co/Y4cdckJT/bliss25.webp https://archive.org/download/bliss-600dpi/bliss-600dpi.png https://archive.org/download/bliss-600dpi/bliss-600dpi.png

by basch 1y ago

mikestorrent 1y ago

Encarta even led the charge on Windows 3.1, where Encarta 94 had the now-classic _ [] X buttons at the top, with custom titlebars, instead of the ^ v classic Windows 3.1 pair.

lproven 1y ago
Are you sure? https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/e282ac57-e280-93c3-af26-4411c3a4efbf https://winworldpc.com/screenshot/e282ac57-e280-93c3-af26-44...
- mark_undoio 1y ago
  Encarta 95 had it - I remember thinking how cool it was that it looked like Win 95.
  - Lammy 1y ago
    Office 95 & 97 do this too on NT 3.51, kinda; just their inner MDI document title bars: http://toastytech.com/guis/miscnt351office97.png http://toastytech.com/guis/miscnt351office97.png
- mikestorrent 1y ago
  Must've been newer - but definitely on 3.1

steve1977 1y ago

Microsoft Money also already had the flat look that became more popular later.

basch 1y ago
I think it actually started for Encarta in 95, but that was ironically for Mac. It wasn’t quite as polished and consistent. I don’t remember having Encarta 96, but it appears to have had it too.

Lammy 1y ago

> If anyone needs a new wallpaper for the week. Neat. That spot on Route 12/121† is one of my favorite places to take people when they visit the Bay Area. My pic from a few months ago: https://i.imgur.com/e2jbdkx.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/e2jbdkx.jpeg One thing that puzzles me though is how the story is always told that Charles O'Rear was on his way from Napa to San Francisco, i.e. westbound on the highway, but having been there it feels like it could only have been the other way around due to the angle of the POV compared to the road and the fact that when you're eastbound there's a big left-hand curve which commands your sightline to the left so it's easy to keep looking past the road and straight into Bliss: https://www.vintag.es/2022/08/bliss.html https://www.vintag.es/2022/08/bliss.html †That particular stretch of road is both: https://cahighways.org/ROUTE012.html https://cahighways.org/ROUTE012.html https://cahighways.org/ROUTE121.html https://cahighways.org/ROUTE121.html

basch 1y ago
https://ibb.co/Q7PHPNhj https://ibb.co/Q7PHPNhj https://i.ibb.co/Y4cdckJT/bliss25.webp https://i.ibb.co/Y4cdckJT/bliss25.webp https://archive.org/download/bliss-600dpi/bliss-600dpi.png https://archive.org/download/bliss-600dpi/bliss-600dpi.png