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MacPaint Art from the Mid-80s Still Looks Great Today

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1034 points decryption | 2 comments | 12 Jul 25 08:45 UTC | HN request time: 0.488s | source
1. brap ◴[12 Jul 25 16:32 UTC] No.44543157[source]▶
It looks great today, but if you asked someone in the 90s or even 00s they’d probably say it looks like ass. Or, like, totally wack, dude.

We like it today because of the nostalgia/retro factor.

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2. oasisbob ◴[12 Jul 25 18:31 UTC] No.44543989[source]▶
I dunno - artwork in this style did pretty good on ffffound back in the day. That's at least as early as 2007. I'm sure you could go back further in other forums and find appreciation for the same reason people like it here.

To contrast, a lot of content from clip-art collections at the time looked awful then and didn't age well at all.