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Windows 98 Icons are Great
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this post was submitted on 22 Jun 2023
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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.
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.