90s design appreciation station

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maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

gently caress you kids and your "aesthetic" - listening to weird jazz with pink and blue and feeling sad because the president is dumb (they all were)

bring back orb stores (RIP natural wonders, green on purple, and weird shapes!!!

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pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

this:

vs this:

FIGHT

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Migishu: Oct 22, 2005; I'll eat your fucking eyeballs if you're not careful; Grimey Drawer

Windows obv because it's back before WMP sucked

# ? Aug 14, 2017 16:07

Wrath of the Bitch King: May 11, 2005; Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

fire.gif

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maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

pagancow posted:

this:

vs this:

FIGHT

macs, before osx, were not a linux and therefor bad

good design peaked with xfce

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Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

pagancow posted:

this is a weird screenshot with the copland style folders but system 7 style everything else.

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maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

seriouspost: i actually prefer the design of win95 era windows... the mac was too busy

windows knew its pixels were huge and didn't try to do fancy stuff

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pram: Jun 10, 2001

macos

# ? Aug 14, 2017 16:13

pram: Jun 10, 2001

maskenfreiheit posted:

seriouspost: i actually prefer the design of win95 era windows... the mac was too busy

windows knew its pixels were huge and didn't try to do fancy stuff

microsoft just didnt have the power to fulfill their true garish vision

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maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

pram posted:

macos

much like sears tower will always be sears tower and i dont know whatcha talkin bout willis, it will always be osx.

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NoneMoreNegative: Jul 20, 2000; GOTH FASCISTIC
PAIN MASTER

shit wizard dad

late nineties shiny/plastic fashion was the best :allears:

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Shaggar: Apr 26, 2006

pagancow posted:

this:

vs this:

FIGHT

I'm impressed someone was able to get a macos screenshot before it crashed.

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post hole digger: Mar 21, 2011

pram posted:

microsoft just didnt have the power to fulfill their true garish vision

itds beautiful.... :patriot:

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Share Bear: Apr 27, 2004

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?mode=original

this website is also adorably 90s :3

# ? Aug 14, 2017 16:31

pram: Jun 10, 2001

maskenfreiheit posted:

much like sears tower will always be sears tower and i dont know whatcha talkin bout willis, it will always be osx.

yeah except we're talking about macos which is pre osx you moron

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pram: Jun 10, 2001

thjread about the 90s, its osx to me hehehe :buddy:

# ? Aug 14, 2017 16:38

The Management: Jan 2, 2010; sup, bitch?

Elder Postsman posted:

this is a weird screenshot with the copland style folders but system 7 style everything else.

it's also running on a pentium 2 and the copyright notice is some rando.

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maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

pram posted:

thjread about the 90s, its osx to me hehehe

I was uh, self owning ironically

yeah that's it

# ? Aug 14, 2017 19:12

Wrath of the Bitch King: May 11, 2005; Research confirms that black is a color like silver is a color, and that beyond black is clarity.

just seeing the extensions folder on old mac makes me loving mad

I spent hours as a retarded child trying ot make myst work on my lovely PowerPC, and by the end it was a 50/50 shot if it would launch or not.

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Bored Online: May 25, 2009; We don't need Rome telling us what to do.

thotbot

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qirex: Feb 15, 2001

Wrath of the Bitch King posted:

just seeing the extensions folder on old mac makes me loving mad

I spent hours as a retarded child trying ot make myst work on my lovely PowerPC, and by the end it was a 50/50 shot if it would launch or not.

you could probably make a pretty decent mobile game out of just trying to figure out which extensions are causing the startup crash

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Tankakern: Jul 25, 2007

maskenfreiheit posted:

I was uh, self owning ironically

yeah that's it

did you buy a new laptop yet

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carry on then: Jul 10, 2010; by VideoGames
(and can't post for 10 years!)

The Management posted:

it's also running on a pentium 2 and the copyright notice is some rando.

and the menu bar on the file browser, get this windows trash out of here

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mailorder bees: Nov 4, 2011; FLUFFERNUTTER

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echinopsis: Apr 13, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

saved by the bell

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akadajet: Sep 14, 2003

mailorder bees! posted:

i hope xenforo will have a hotdogstand yospos theme

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My Linux Rig: Mar 27, 2010; Can't post for 6 years!

Share Bear posted:

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/index.php?mode=original

this website is also adorably 90s :3

quote:

the editors of the august 1999 edition of the visual basic programmer's journal 101 tech tips for vb developers must have been running low on tips to share with their readers. tip #100 provided the code to make checkboxes act like option buttons:

quote:
checkboxes and option button controls function similarly but with an important difference: a user can select any number of checkbox controls on a form at the same time, but can select only one option button control in a group at a time.

a small piece of code allows the user to select only one checkbox in a group at any given time. this change is useful when you want to use checkboxes instead of option buttons.
we would have written the last line as:

quote:
this change is useful when you want to confuse your users.

rofl this is p good site

# ? Aug 14, 2017 22:34

Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

qirex posted:

you could probably make a pretty decent mobile game out of just trying to figure out which extensions are causing the startup crash

ConflictCatcher.app

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maskenfreiheit: Dec 30, 2004

mailorder bees! posted:

🌭🌭🌭🌭🌭👍

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Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

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Elder Postsman: Aug 30, 2000; i used hot bot to search for "teens"

Displeased Moo Cow posted:

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There Will Be Penalty: May 18, 2002; Makes a great pet!

especially dat mouse

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Wild EEPROM: Jul 29, 2011; oh, my, god. Becky, look at her bitrate.

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Smythe: Oct 12, 2003

Shaggar posted:

I'm impressed someone was able to get a macos screenshot before it crashed.

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Gazpacho: Jun 18, 2004; by Fluffdaddy; Slippery Tilde

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pram: Jun 10, 2001

snow white design language was good as poo poo

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pagancow: Jan 15, 2001; Video Stymie

Wild EEPROM posted:

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r u ready to WALK: Sep 29, 2001

Reintroduce the snow white Timb

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eschaton: Mar 7, 2007; Don't you just hate when you wind up in a store with people who are in a socioeconomic class that is pretty obviously about two levels lower than your own?

r u ready to WALK posted:

Reintroduce the snow white Timb

lol at calling that Snow White

that's Snow White

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Moo Cowabunga: Jun 15, 2009; [Office Worker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6lV31t7cg

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