It sounded like this. I miss it every day.

God bless the rains down in Africa...

Read their license. It does not meet the definition of open source.

How'd you get a screenshot of my mom's desktop as I found it when I'd be home from college, cir. 2003?

I'd always have to do this crap to our old Sony VAIO desktop (that was mine, until I went to college and my mom took it over). Then my mom would get mad that I "messed up the computer" because I'd delete this crap and apparently she used it?

Like the old Notes app on the iPhone/iPad that looked like it was a yellow legal pad!

I'm curious to know what it is like these days but not enough to give blizzard more money anymore.

I hide all my apps and so my home screen is completely blank, save for the wallpaper. On my Linux machines there are no icons on the desktop (except I added a calendar applet to my laptop, and the icon for my external drive appears when I plug it in). I can breathe. It's lovely.

I once saw a colleague at a work event who had a home screen completely full of icons that, when more closely inspected, were actually stacks of icons layered on top of one another. I was so anxious just looking at it.

Oh man I remember having a few friends that put so much crap on their MySpace pages that they'd crash my computers. When Facebook showed up with its simple UI I was happy (of course, in the years since...)

A pretty good chance some luxury model might have been made for such a thing.
Even if not normally produced, some rich guy might have had it custom made.

It was a different time, the novelty of the experience made up for the lower frame rate. A stable 30fps used to be considered good, and 15fps was fine for a game like WoW which didn't really need to rely on buttery smooth gameplay.

The internet was also just a lot slower back then, too, so in one sense the framerate only needed to be as good as your ping, essentially.

What do you call a man with no arms and no legs on the barbeque grill?

Frank.

Times didn't change! Anyone that provided any large scale tech support to the actual average person understands that tech is indistinguishable from magic to them

Aaah the good old "next next next install" you open the browser some time later with a surprise toolbar

Can't say that I do (can't remember something I never knew), but it appears to have been June 2013

It was fun while it lasted!

https://skins.webamp.org/

Skin museum

Fun trip down memory lane

John ivy did away with the early iOS design leather and glas optics and went non skeomorphism. NobodY knew the word back then. Nobody does now. Hence Google.

Don't Get In The Kiln!

Peak skeuomorphism.

Smartphones and mobile phones used to be inventive too.

Eve online mentioned o7

Gonna take some time to do the things I never had

Man the eyewitness learning games were fantastic - I loved the dinosaur one where you'd find bones in the museum and reassemble them and then have them wander round the otherwise empty liminal space of the museum.

I miss it sometimes. Then I remember, last time I played it, I didn't have my original log ins and whatnot so had to start from the beginning and it took weeks to get to a level where I could do basic noob stuff without dying right away. I then spent like 18 months of just training skills, I'd log in, fill the queue, log out, log back in a week or so later and fill the queue again. After nearly two years of doing that I just gave up :D

But I still miss it. But I also miss my abusive ex.

Wow, they prohibit forking and distributing changes, that fucking blows.

Also, doesn't look like it supports Linux natively, which is a shame.

Gorgeous

Oh my Deity

Is there a Linux distro or program that would allow me to do this to my desktop?

This shit still exists on windows and I fucking hate it

I loved the more blob / liquid designs like the rio forge

If you find one, I want to know too. This would be a fun customization.

There was more then a few Winamp skins that looked like that

What's that relevant xkcd about workflows? /shudder

There was this while concept at the time that digital interfaces should mirror familiar physical interfaces in order to be easily understood by users, and it's fascinating and honestly not without value.

Qmmp might fit the bill, I apply old winamp skins to it for a nostalgia fix

I've been using this style of UI literally yesterday on a WinXP machine and every time you hovered the cursor over a button it played back what the button does, and some extra information. But yeah, mouse-only.

Is that Truespace?

Bryce 3d

And that's the fucking nightmare we seem to have at every web service now. Browsing is nigh impossible because everything will jump your cursor and autoplay.

Is that grid or decursive? Looks like they have duplicate frames?

Seeing this helps me understand older sci-fi better, the ones where people access the computer as a virtual reality office which leads to other things. It makes sense that the authors would assume VR as the natural progression of a UI like this.

It seems like when personal computers were new they tried to replicate the familiar to ease new users in, but now that we're all very used to them we've abandoned the concept almost entirely. I feel like we might be in the beginning of a trend back to it though, now that our internet connections and graphical abilities are more up to the task.

I've watched a blind person play FF14. Making a fun-looking static UI accessible is a piece of cake compared to that.

Skeuomorphism

I remember people writing 3D Wayland window compositors, where you can walk around a room/maze and put application windows on walls.

Maybe it was this:
https://github.com/capisce/mazecompositor

Cheers. Brought back memories, even if they were wrong ones 😉

AND JESUS WEPT!

That's not so bad. I have more than this, but with a larger screen you have more space.

So this is a healer. They barely need to see anything anyways.

Would you like some help with your search?