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Blue95: a desktop for your childhood home's computer room

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567 points elvis70 | 1 comments | 30 Mar 25 15:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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rbanffy ◴[30 Mar 25 15:41 UTC] No.43525012[source]▶
How cute… imagine my childhood home would have a computer with a graphical desktop…

I feel so old now…

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cmrdporcupine ◴[30 Mar 25 16:18 UTC] No.43525268[source]▶
Yeah as far as GUIs go, Win95 isn't in the "nostalgia" category for me, I was already well into adulthood.

I kind of get the appeal, but it's also unnecessarily skeumorphic/fake-3d and there were some UX things that made little sense especially lumping all the window controls all together (including the destructive "close" X) where MacOS smartly separated them.

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abraxas ◴[30 Mar 25 16:24 UTC] No.43525327[source]▶
The fake 3d is actually very useful in communicating what is a button or another interactive piece of the interface and what's not. The modern clean uis where everything is a thin rectangle or just text that you are supposed to click are a nightmare.
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1. rbanffy ◴[30 Mar 25 16:28 UTC] No.43525360[source]▶
I agree. Early Macs had to give buttons a 2D distinctive look. A good thing was that the look and feel were part of the OS and not the application, so everything would be consistent.