It could still be done in an accessible way. Back when this style was popular though, accessibility on the web hadn't advanced much. Now we have all kinds of tools to help

What do you call someone with no arms or legs on the floor in front of your door?

Matt.

I've seen this toolbar hell before. I've had to clean many a pc of this toolbar hell before.

No, but I did, for some reason, write "question" where I should have written comment. I'll go edit the comment now so that you will be able to reply to it!

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.

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

Is this supposed to be on a farm? What’s going on outside that window?

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.

-50 D.K.P.

Do you see my mana? What am I supposed to do for you?

The drawers in Lotus Smartsuite

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.

Shan't be feeding the troll. Bye!

Okay, sorry if you got oversatiated.

But anyway, what did you actually try to say with your comment?
You said:

Lots of wheelchairs around here that assume every one here knows about them.

And I cannot really make heads of tails of what that was supposed to mean. Could you paraphrase that comment, please?

You must love Apple Glass. It is so minimalist you can’t even see it half the time.

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!"

Let them have fun!

Or, in this case, but the amount of numbers in every corner 🙃

I intentionally installed it on other people's PCs...

(Is there some open source media player with this kind of skins?)

See you in hell

These UIs were useful for getting people used to how to do things on a computer that they used to do in real life. A file cabinet to represent the directory structure, a notepad app that looked like a notepad. A photo gallery app that displays your photos on a virtual film reel. Stuff like that. (See the UI to the original iPhone for a perfect example of this kind of design.)

Once computers became ubiquitous, people eventually started using them more than file cabinets, card catalogs, pen and paper, etc., eliminating the need for UIs that represented their real-world counterparts. Everyone stopped using the old methods to do things, which eventually evolved into the minimalist UIs we have today; using real-world representations was no longer necessary, because people stopped associating computer tasks with their oldschool counterparts.

I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.

IIRC, you could choose between a number of different themes.

But, yeah, rural America representation in technology was weirdly a thing in the 1990s.

This is what I would actually consider maximalist UI. OP's is neither minimal or maximal, it's just overstylized UI.

Entirely glass no, largely transparent plastic yes.

This has just been a giant nostalgia trip.

Mmmmm shadow bars

For those who are unfamiliar (like me): Skeumorph

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.

"For VGA 640x480 256 colors"

It's not enjoyable to play at low fps though? I don't get it

I remember customizing this! What a throwback!

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).

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...

Remember when the Google search trend for "skeomorphism" peaked?

ew windows media player

You can take a sexy single there

Winamp has been open sourced
https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp

This comment section is the first time I've seen the word, and it's been multiple times.

It's an incredibly ableist slur. "There are a lot of disabled people around here who assume everyone else here knows (cares) about the existence and needs of disabled people".

I really wish I still had time for WoW.. Sigh.

XMMS is able to use Winamp skins. This one seems to be WMP, but that one copied the concept of crazy skins from Winamp.

My old motherboard's driver disc from 2015 would install Google toolbar if you weren't careful

One should always wipe. I tell my 6yo this all the time.

In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That's the first time I saw this image and ... It didn't strike me as too unrealistic.

At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.

My wife has only begrudgingly allowed me to maintain a welcome mat that says "Hi! I'm Mat!"

I don't think I've met a single eve player who doesn't proudly refer to it as a "spreadsheets in space" game XD