What made Windows 95 so aesthetic?

No it isn't

focused design and testing, something that took a bit of turn to the side after deciding to be more web-page like
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in terms of appearance, I guess
it's an ordinary beveled button interface that everyone copied after NeXTSTEP did it, it looks very of-the-time

in terms of interface, it's remarkably usable to this day

When I see a screenshot of Windows 95, I have flashbacks of clicking on the Start button, and hearing *CRRRJJJJJJJJKKKKK* for a few seconds before the Start menu popped up.

Made by chad programers not liberal virgin "designers".

The old beveled look of Windows 9x beats the new "guess where the borders of the buttons are!!" flat aesthetic of W10, I was so happy when I found out KDE has the beveled widgets built in as the fallback theme though I don't know if anyone else uses them

C0C0C0/192192192 gray

kinda sad how strict ms were with ux guidelines, back with xp, standards slipping with vista/7 (cant disable some fade/slide effects such as those in regedit), to win10 full icon misalignment retardation, almost as if all the good guys left years ago

industial design >>> artfags

youtube.com/watch?v=D0DDQumaaCg

Your lives must be so drab and boring.

Really? Imo DEs havent really changed much. What's better about modern windows shell or Gnome kde etc?

Exactly. I dont think people realize how much different the culture of software dev was back then.

A scarcity of pixels and resources forces developers to focus only on what is essential.

Sadly, as computers became faster, companies realized that all the extra computing power can be used for the botnet, cia nigger infiltrations of your pc, and glossy effects to blind you that they are robbing your computers resources in order to advance a neoliberal, cosmopolitan future filled with low iq mixed race npcs too dumb to rise up but just smart enough to work until death.

Pic related is 98 tho not 95

Your nostalgia.

It doesn't look good, but your fond memories make it look good.

Bloat and die. Simplicity and Efficency are Devine.

Your nostalgia for it

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Literally this: youtu.be/ALvssgCcdPQ

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The green background and screensavers.

Perfect analogy

"""Classic"""

I used Windows 95 A in a virtual machine. The one without Internet Explorer installed, it normally doesn't come with it. Simple and consistent without extra steps, its not bloated or very minimally bloated. Its really straight forward to use. The interface is old and supposedly about just usability but has unnecessary design elements, removing one layer of the 3d box style I think would make it better or simply making it flat with solid borders. It's made to use not look at is the best way to describe it.
People should definitely try it and explore a little because it gives a good perspective on everything that's horribly wrong with most modern software not just styling.

damn son
you know Jow Forums is satire, right?

>Why was 95 so good
>Post Windows 98
Fuck off Zoomer

I really think it's because the greenish background reminded people of a card table

Win98 was peak Win95.

This is fucking beautiful, simple, functional, and comfy. Its so very comfy. I really miss windows98.

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unironically based and redpilled

There were plenty of high resolution systems back then though, it’s just that computers were machines oriented towards professionals and not toys oriented towards drooling retards.

>There were plenty of high resolution systems back then though
you paid a premium for it, it certainly was not the norm

What I’m saying was that this was the norm on powerful systems as well, not just shitboxes.

I don't know what your saying at all. You sound like a cia nigger to me.

I would say it looks only good on small screen resolutions. Also people didn't expect so much of it as they do now. Software pirating forced companies to switch to ad-based refinancing. I18n is much easier by using icons everywhere. Beeing forced to reinvent the UI all the time.

Do you realize that W95 UI would be considered bloat compared with the Macintosh UI in the 80s, right?

it certainly makes for the best CSS

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And Macintosh hardware was bloat compared to Amiga. But at the end of the day, things were demonstrably more functional and minimalist than today.

You sound like a deconstructionist. You're glowing.

2000 was comfier

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Highly functional and fun to play with
Nowadays the themes are boring as shit.

9/10. Yellow font and too thick titlebar
Nice! but too much for my 128mb ram

>Jow Forums
>satire
I have some really bad news, user.

Like everything else from that time, it looks like a machine. It doesn't want to entertain you, it wants to do a job and look professional while it does it.

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no HL1 demo installed

is over here

BASED

>Uplink niggas remember

No space pinball on the background, or Hexen.

Sorry, lots of people here aren't women.

based mechwarrior 3 poster
I have a 98 machine to play old stuff like that but I still enjoy the "challenge" of getting it to work on win7/win10 etc...mechwarrior 3 works fine with dgVooDoo and a couple other tweaks (framerate limiter, etc)
haven't tried battle for naboo in years though.

underrated

>I'm a shallow person who can't appreciate genuinely good design unless it's brightly colored and/or tries hard to be trendy
They're not the ones you should be calling boring, my dude.

Just rice your wangblows till you achieve ricing kino.

>Don't let your dreams stay dreams.

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>It was the best of its time
no, it wasn't. it was unstable as fuck and a cybersecurity laughing stock. it was hyped by microsoft and consumer drones, but many people tried to avoid it as long as possible. the first "good" iteration of windows 9x was 98SE.

Honestly. It was the attention to detail, and simplicity.
The start menu was pretty, and remember the spinning browser logos.

Your system tray triggers me

Hush user, newfags don't know.

98SE with its screensaver was the best

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your longing of simpler times desu famalam

this,it was a completely different mindset when it to users interface & general aesthetics

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It's SE you dumbass.

>people saved my Froppy on 98SE desktop

gg

Still have it, just had to replace the CPU and MB. (old ones went FUBAR, rip K6-2 500MHz)

It's not. SE already abandoned channels.

The UI depth.

It's boring UI made you want to actually open up a program and do something. I spent more time staring at scribbles in mspaint than I did in the OS menus

win95 WAS bloated back in the day. most people had a 386/486 when it came out and it only performed well on a pentium machine with 16mb ram to cope with memory leaks left and right.

Haiku is better

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I had a dual Pentium Pro system at the time.
Needless to say I didn't have any problems.

terrible

cringe

test

Win 95 brings me back. *sip*, looking at the boot screen and meditating on the hard drive crackling. I wonder why hard drives from the 90's had that loud crackling sound? Current drives just sound like muted power tools.

It's the best because, for once, Microsoft actually did usuability research before shipping the product.

socket3.wordpress.com/2018/02/03/designing-windows-95s-user-interface/

Does anyone know if there are any .ISOs with Win98 + all the updates and programs installed anywhere? Same question for Win2k, I found this ryanvm.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=10622 but you have to build everything yourself.

revolting

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I dont think there is an Win98 install which install a working 98 on your computer and has everything preinstalled. You will need to install plain Win98 and start adding updates into already installed system.

There's no analogy in that post wtf

>winamp
>not aimp3

>aimp3
>not xmplay

>SE already abandoned channels.
It didn't. Look in the first portion of the GUI setup and you'll see a TV channel component available to install when you choose components.

Pic related. It's in this list. I forgot its name but it's the last in the list and it appears on the 98SE CD as well.

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This is very unfortunate, I have an actual machine that I want to reinstall the last update, and all the proper versions of the most important software on, how do people do it for emulation/VM purposes, there has to be something, you know, like you can get stuff preinstalled for MAME emulation and whatnot.

this looks like a shitty xfce theme

>Not making the thread a mdi window

It was designed by programmers instead of a "diverse" assortment of transsexual artists.

Nostalgia.

It's real 98SE.

seems you misspelled 3.1 and posted the wrong pic champ

>*crack*
>now... windows 2000
>*sip*
>that WAS
>*sip* *crack*
>an OS
>*burp*

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I hate how old Windows would always attempt to scale the systray icons to the taskbar size and fail miserably.

Probably because it copied OS/2 3.0 background color

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Win2k was peak aesthetic and it's been downhill ever since.
XP may have had better functionality and compatibility compared to 2000, but even with the classic logon and interface enabled the new icons made it look like a child's toy.

NT 3.1 came out over year prior and has the same background.