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Remember when the Google search trend for “skeomorphism” peaked?
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.
(Is there some open source media player with this kind of skins?)
ew windows media player
The OG winamp is still available and fully working
This has just been a giant nostalgia trip.
I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.
And
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.
Most of these ran fullscreen and changed the resolution to 640x480 or 800x600, which most monitors supported. I had a widescreen LCD that would always stretch to fill, quite annoying…
“For VGA 640x480 256 colors”
Let them have fun!
Banzai Buddy!
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!”
I intentionally installed it on other people’s PCs…
See you in hell
Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005
I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he’s like I can’t seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time
Edit: wording
I’ve seen this toolbar hell before. I’ve had to clean many a pc of this toolbar hell before.
Oh neat. Chance to win a free lobster dinner. Gonna click it.
You can take a sexy single there
The drawers in Lotus Smartsuite
I remember customizing this! What a throwback!
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.
Is this supposed to be on a farm? What’s going on outside that window?
IIRC, you could choose between a number of different themes.
But, yeah, rural America representation in technology was weirdly a thing in the 1990s.
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.
Mmmmm shadow bars
This is what I would actually consider maximalist UI. OP’s is neither minimal or maximal, it’s just overstylized UI.
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.
“RIGHT SIDE, MANY WHELPS!! HANDLE IT!!!”
-50 D.K.P.
At least I have chicken
Do you see my mana? What am I supposed to do for you?
🍑💳
I can’t tell you how many fleet fights I literally disabled graphics and only had the overview and chat. Especially multiboxing, I might have one with graphics. Not necessary for most.
This is what LOL streams look like to me.
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.
It’s not enjoyable to play at low fps though? I don’t get it
Or, in this case, but the amount of numbers in every corner 🙃
This looks like when you first discover that your Linux desktop environment supports adding infinite taskbars
Lol I had all of those and then some but I also had enough resolution/UI scale that it was all tucked to the sides (other than the nice looking hp/mana bars that framed the middle of the screen).
Did the people who stood in fire do so because they couldn’t even see what they were or weren’t standing in? Should guilds have done fund raising to buy better GPUs and monitors to best help progression? Thinking back to when I had a hand in guild leadership, it didn’t even occur to me to base any recruitment or raiding roster on PC specs, but it seems so obvious now in hindsight. Too bad I can’t go back.
Healing back in the day was definitely like this.
This takes me back.
WARNING: SEMEN LOW
And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those
And a little lizard runs across the bottom every once in a while! I had a Czech version, very painstakingly localized (but nothing beat The Way Things Work).
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.
