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Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by pimeys »

Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #67
wiseowise wrote: post #38

90s, early 2000s were peak times for UI.

It was a time when tech companies were trying to make computers a common household item, so they did tons of user testing and we made great strides in UX as discoverability became king. Then, starting about 10 years ago, they started throwing all that research out the window in favor of minimal, clean, flat, "sleek" UIs because the screenshots are easier to market. They started appealing to the lowest common denomina…

> I hate nearly every single thing about the MacOS UX. The dock is awful, and so many insane defaults all over the place. Hiding scrollbars is a bug, not a feature. Pointer acceleration is a bug, not a feature. The scroll wheel operating in reverse is a bug, not a feature.

Yeah, me too. And I kinda hate how Gnome followed that path and made the same mistakes what Apple did. I am in trouble every time I need to use the UI. It is just very unintuitive and I get quite annoyed with it if I need to use it for longer periods. The small scrollbars, the dock, how useless Finder feels like after Dolphin...

Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by agumonkey »

can16358p wrote: post #109
the_sleaze_ wrote: post #87

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I can smell that windows 98 theme, the gray plastic and the rubber mouse ball that used to get schmootz in it.

For a better experience, please clean the rubber mouse ball and put it back and set your browser window to 1024x768 resolution for the ultimate experience.

and update drivers to enable 24bit color depth

Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by progmetaldev »

fusedshadow wrote: post #72
culi wrote: post #56

I've been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to expand my collection! https://alexbsoft.github.io/win95.css/ windows 95 https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ windows xp https://cs16.samke.me/ counter strike 1.6 https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ edward tufte https://jdan.github.io/98.css/ windows 98 https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/ windows 7 https://micah5.github.io/PSone.css/ playstation one https://nostalgic-cs…

Belongs here: https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

Wow, this takes me back! I remember visiting pages like this in the early 90's while rendering fractals in Fractint. I remember following a bunch of Geocities pages that looked at Pink Floyd's The Division Bell album, and there being a hidden meaning. Turned out to be created by the record company, but as a high schooler on the early internet, I was fascinated with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publius_Enigma

Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by progmetaldev »

culi wrote: post #74
fusedshadow wrote: post #72

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Belongs here: https://code.divshot.com/geo-bootstrap/

I like it! But how would you describe this one? This collection is meant more for tight/inspired themes. But I also included https://bootstra386.com/ which is on the edge too so I'm not against including this

That Bootstra386 reminds me of the Mosaic web browser. Not sure if that was the "feeling" behind it, but it feels like the early internet days.

Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by progmetaldev »

brap wrote: post #88
duxup wrote: post #6

I was watching my son play Half Life 2 recently and it occurred to me how much more real or immersive it seemed when the menus and such had this style and they look like actual computer system UI. Dated maybe, but they feel industrial and real.... and easy to use all in one. Meanwhile many games have hyper stylized menus with flowery wingdings all over them and makes it unrealistic / a horrible experience / chore.

Don’t even get me started on modern games’ menu UIs. I got the latest CoD for PS5 like a year ago and I couldn’t figure out what the fuck was going on in the menu. Incoherent mess impossible to navigate. I felt like I was going insane. I guess I’m just getting old.

If you look up the more later versions of CoD on PC, you'll find that they are actually accessing the webcam and watching the user to drive "engagement", and the users are not made aware of this. I wish I had the link, but I found a YouTube video about it. I believe it started with CoD BlackOps on PC.

Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by [deleted] »

woodrowbarlow wrote: post #69
nonethewiser wrote: post #31

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Oh wow, I really love this. PHPBB also comes to mind for this sort of style. https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewforum.php?f=551 Is there a name for this style? Im also trying to pinpoint the defining characteristics. The thing that stand out to me are: - 3d-ish buttons - gradients (headers, buttons, etc) - not much whitespace between text - small text

that style was prominent just as skewmorphism started to fall out of fashion and "web 2.0" was just becoming a buzzword.

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Re: Show HN: Cs16.css – CSS library based on Counter Strike 1.6 UI

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Post by culi »

notpushkin wrote: post #106
culi wrote: post #56

I've been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to expand my collection! https://alexbsoft.github.io/win95.css/ windows 95 https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ windows xp https://cs16.samke.me/ counter strike 1.6 https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/ edward tufte https://jdan.github.io/98.css/ windows 98 https://khang-nd.github.io/7.css/ windows 7 https://micah5.github.io/PSone.css/ playstation one https://nostalgic-cs…

Ah yes, my favourite retro UI theme... Edward Tufte

This isn't really meant to be a retro UI theme list. It's just a list of CSS stylesheets with a tight theme that's a specific reference to some sort of UI

Not to be confused with design systems or UI libraries. Just CSS stylesheets

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