Remember when the Google search trend for "skeomorphism" peaked?
this post was submitted on 14 Mar 2026
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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.
(Is there some open source media player with this kind of skins?)
ew windows media player
The OG winamp is still available and fully working
This has just been a giant nostalgia trip.
I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.
And
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.
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...
"For VGA 640x480 256 colors"
Let them have fun!
Banzai Buddy!
My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.
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.
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!"
I intentionally installed it on other people's PCs...
See you in hell
Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005
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
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The drawers in Lotus Smartsuite
I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible.
Mmmmm shadow bars
This is what I would actually consider maximalist UI. OP's is neither minimal or maximal, it's just overstylized UI.
Eve players: noooo... It's not just a spreadsheet
Veteran WoW players: hmm... I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display
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This is what LOL streams look like to me.
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And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those
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).
I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.
I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.
Back when software had a soul...
I prefer minimalist ui. This just looks messy.
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.
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skeuomorphism was all the rage for a while and I loved it
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