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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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838 points bennettfeely | 3 comments | 21 Apr 20 23:51 UTC | HN request time: 0.619s | source
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atum47 ◴[22 Apr 20 04:30 UTC] No.22942201[source]▶
that's really gorgeous. I find windows 95 aesthetics a master piece. I'm not gonna lie, I thought about windows 95 when I was creating FOS, my Fake Operational System "framework".

I'm thinking about refactoring it and I'll may incorporate windows color scheme to it. Here's the link if you wanna see what I am talking about.

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/fos

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cm2187 ◴[22 Apr 20 09:04 UTC] No.22943580[source]▶
Fashion is cyclical. At one point people will get bored of these ambiguous modern UI with hidden fields and gestures, and made of 50 shades of light grey that only a calibrated display can render with any discernable contrast. And we will rediscover the merit of clear and explicit UIs, and Apple will claim it just invented it!
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schrijver ◴[22 Apr 20 09:19 UTC] No.22943660[source]▶
I wouldn’t be surprised :) The Windows 95 aesthetic is already back into fashion, I see it a lot on flyers, web art… just not yet in computer applications! I guess that’s a matter of time. Check out the flyer for this party: https://highclouds.org/highclouds-online-antivirus-party-mag...

They used vectors, looks like the Windows 95 aesthetics that was so connected to pixel survives this transition quite well!

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1. squiggleblaz ◴[22 Apr 20 09:35 UTC] No.22943773[source]▶
That's later than Windows 95 - maybe 98 or 2000. Windows 95 didn't support gradient titlebars.
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2. xattt ◴[22 Apr 20 10:37 UTC] No.22944143[source]▶
Gradient titlebars were the killer feature for Windows 98.
3. nobleach ◴[22 Apr 20 13:36 UTC] No.22945362[source]▶
Some of us replaced our GDI.EXE, GDI32.DLL, SHELL.DLL, etc and installed TweakUI.exe to get those Windows 98 features a year or so earlier....

Then again, I was a Memphis beta tester (legitimately, not the "I found these rars on a warez site" variety of "beta tester") So I "enjoyed" some of those features pretty early on.