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Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by 72deluxe »

PudgePacket wrote: post #11

The itunes interface hasn't changed much in the last 13 years. Not many software products go that long without a major reskin, especially seeing as it came from a company that prides itself on it's progressive design.

I quite miss the brushed metal look. It is interesting that you could take OSX from back then and put it in front of someone today and it'll behave mostly the same.

Sadly the same could not be sad about mainstream Linux environments (GNOME3, Unity etc.) or Windows 8/10. Windows 10 you can to some extent.

Thought provoking.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by shubhamjain »

72deluxe wrote: post #12

I really liked these. This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 beca…

> This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware.

Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why we were advised that we should save our work often because the whole thing was so damn unreliable.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by ue_ »

sengork wrote: post #13
TurboHaskal wrote: post #9

That Return to Castle Wolfenstein screenshot... Thanks for reminding me that I'm getting old.

RTCW:ET is still well and alive thank you.

Yeah, there's lots of active servers - but it's dying. I think many servers are filled more by bots than people. That said, it's great fun if you know where to play.

RTCW is also fun on singleplayer mode.. and it runs natively on GNU/Linux.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by joosters »

longwave wrote: post #18

Amazed that Dennis Ritchie used a non-monospace font, I don't think I have seen any other serious developer use one. Also amused to see the Jerkcity comic open in Jordan Hubbard's screenshot.

I've tried it a few times, but it's just so painful when you want things to align. Now, if you had a really good code layout tool that could 'snap' parts of lines so that they horizontally align at sensible places, I think non-monospace fonts could be useful.

In fact, having smart alignment would be great even with monospace fonts. I work in emacs and it's frustrating when the editor decides to 'fix' your own spacing because the editor-mode doesn't have a very intelligent layout system...

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by 72deluxe »

shubhamjain wrote: post #22
72deluxe wrote: post #12

I really liked these. This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 beca…

> This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. Are you kidding? It was nightmare to do anything on Windows 98. There were so many things that could result in "dead" state and only solution was to restart and not to mention those frequent BSOD. There was a reason why…

Haha yes true. Windows 95 second release wasn't so bad. But as you said, 98 was bad. It was better with service packs. You realised what junk it was when you looked at 98's task manager compared to NT's and XP's.

Re: Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

Hey, the PHP creator included a selfie!

(Full disclosure: I write PHP on a daily basis, and reject the opinion that it should be avoided for various reasons, but I recognise the stereotype (that it's not a very 'good' language) enough to derive humour from it - consider it sort of self-deprecating)

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