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My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.
A lot of people installed this shit. Because they’re visiting fuckmybeaniebabies.net and a popup is like “Install our spam bar for a chance to win herpes!” And they happily click ok.
A lot of people still do that, but it's "Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?" and they click "Yes!"
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How'd you get a screenshot of my mom's desktop as I found it when I'd be home from college, cir. 2003?
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I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible.
Eve players: noooo... It's not just a spreadsheet
Veteran WoW players: hmm... I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display
And they still wiped.
To be fair, they only had a thirty-two point three three uh, repeating of course, percentage, of survival.
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The 15 FPS indicator is the icing on the cake.
The standards we used to put up with...
The standards we used to put up with…
Back when games were measured by how enjoyable they were rather than a little number in the corner.
Or, in this case, but the amount of numbers in every corner 🙃
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This looks like when you first discover that your Linux desktop environment supports adding infinite taskbars
This takes me back.
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what do you call someone with no arms or legs in a pool? . Bob
What do you call someone with no arms or legs on the floor in front of your door?
Matt.
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Is this supposed to be on a farm? What’s going on outside that window?
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(Is there some open source media player with this kind of skins?)
Winamp has been open sourced https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp
Read their license. It does not meet the definition of open source.
Wow, they prohibit forking and distributing changes, that fucking blows.
Also, doesn't look like it supports Linux natively, which is a shame.
XMMS is able to use Winamp skins. This one seems to be WMP, but that one copied the concept of crazy skins from Winamp.
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It's time to bring back skeumorphism
That is probably what the image in the post is about, really.
It's supposed to make the program more accessible for those who are not used to the concept of computer programs at all.
It will come back when all the big players are only offering cloud services, to ensure normies don’t demand that computing be allowed in the hands of everyone again. “It’s so easy to use! Why couldn’t those old PC things get it right? God those were terrible, I’m so glad we subscribe to ChatGPT for $80 a month, and those scary Muslim leftists get ion-cannoned when they have conversations about how they want life to be better instantly now.”
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And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those
I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.
I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.
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Packard Bell Navigator. I really tried to make it work when I was a kid, but it was all style and not much function. I miss it, though. It was ambitious.
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There was this while concept at the time that digital interfaces should mirror familiar physical interfaces in order to be easily understood by users, and it's fascinating and honestly not without value.
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I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.
Back when all screens were more-or-less the same size and nothing ever had to scale. Your UI was the size it was, and if your screen was too big, too bad! You can either stretch it and deal with the pixelly mess, or squint your eyes to see the teeeny tiny program.
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Back when software had a soul...
This has just been a giant nostalgia trip.
Is there a Linux distro or program that would allow me to do this to my desktop?
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I prefer minimalist ui. This just looks messy.
These UIs were useful for getting people used to how to do things on a computer that they used to do in real life. A file cabinet to represent the directory structure, a notepad app that looked like a notepad. A photo gallery app that displays your photos on a virtual film reel. Stuff like that. (See the UI to the original iPhone for a perfect example of this kind of design.)
Once computers became ubiquitous, people eventually started using them more than file cabinets, card catalogs, pen and paper, etc., eliminating the need for UIs that represented their real-world counterparts. Everyone stopped using the old methods to do things, which eventually evolved into the minimalist UIs we have today; using real-world representations was no longer necessary, because people stopped associating computer tasks with their oldschool counterparts.
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skeuomorphism was all the rage for a while and I loved it
This reminded me of the absolutely god-damn-awful DVD menu of the first Harry Potter film
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