What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

I just can't get me enough of Raymond Chen and his wonderful walks down the dustier paths of memory lane. Feels like a more innocent time where I didn't feel like I was imminently going to be turned into paperclips.

It’s probably partially an illusion, but while everything wasn’t fine back then, it seemed that there was at least a vision of a positive self-determined computing future that could be achieved and that we were roughly on-track on. Nowadays it feels more of a fight to keep things not getting worse, most of the time.

I'd say, go back to the hardware. Pick a computer hobby that involves tinkering the hardware, not just the software. Holding something on one's hand means a lot.