I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.
Microblog Memes
A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.
Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.
RULES:
- Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
- Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
- You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
- Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
- Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
- Absolutely no NSFL content.
- Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
- No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.
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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...
This has just been a giant nostalgia trip.

Back when software had a soul...
God bless the rains down in Africa...
Gonna take some time to do the things I never had
The drawers in Lotus Smartsuite

Remember when the Google search trend for "skeomorphism" peaked?
This comment section is the first time I've seen the word, and it's been multiple times.
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.
skeuomorphism was all the rage for a while and I loved it
