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Windows 98 Icons are Great (alexmeub.com)
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[–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I was barely alive in 1998, but I definitely think Win98 was the perfect sort of skeuomorphism, not super showy or maximalist like a lot of skeumorphic design is. It's like modern minimalism without the suck.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago*

    skeuomorphism

    New word learned.

    For the lazy: it's a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues (attributes) from structures that were necessary in the original.

    For instance : a lamp in the shape of a candle, or the folders in a operating system.

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