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tsywke44 | 4 years ago

windows 95 looked the way it did, not because the people making it thought it was the optimal look, but due to hardware limitations.

A designer in 1995 seeing you waste a modern 4k LCD monitor’s potential to display blurry low res 256 color icons? They would think you are clinically insane.

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mmcgaha|4 years ago

Windows 95 was great not because of the icons, colors, or anything like that. It was great because the UI was consistent and intuitive. There were a few weird things in there like the briefcase but for the most part it was just enough UI and software to be really effective without getting in the way.

vikingerik|4 years ago

So playing NES Super Mario Bros on that monitor would be clinical insanity, because it could be playing a modern Switch game instead?

blibble|4 years ago

256 colours? more like 16!