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Really cool! The illusion broke when emoji could be rendered correctly, I think the original interface could not even render basic utf8.
It's interesting to use the original NeXT interface after all these years. Honestly I feel I could be very happy with a modern desktop that stuck to the NeXT principles, just updated text rendering to modern standards. 2-bit greyscale is good enough for UI widgets, especially now that we have high-DPI displays and don't necessarily need edge antialiasing anymore for vector graphics. Text labels on menus and buttons i…
And the column-based file browser never appealed to me.
I do agree that a high-res black and white screen is so much better for text related tasks than what we had back then in PC land. 640x480x16 colors was a mess. Worked fine for things like CAD but kind of gross to type documents on.
(The type world being a small one, this design had assistance from David Jonathan Ross, the designer of the Input coding typeface)
It took me a minute to figure out that I needed to properly type in the URL of a website.
Which returns full circle to "AOL keywords"...
It's interesting to use the original NeXT interface after all these years. Honestly I feel I could be very happy with a modern desktop that stuck to the NeXT principles, just updated text rendering to modern standards. 2-bit greyscale is good enough for UI widgets, especially now that we have high-DPI displays and don't necessarily need edge antialiasing anymore for vector graphics. Text labels on menus and buttons i…
The first few versions of OS X were more NeXT-like. They felt dated. And the column-based file browser never appealed to me. I do agree that a high-res black and white screen is so much better for text related tasks than what we had back then in PC land. 640x480x16 colors was a mess. Worked fine for things like CAD but kind of gross to type documents on.
On a supposedly state of the art Mac G4, it ran like a lobotomized sloth mostly because of the heavy new graphics stack. The giant fonts, translucent titlebars, pinstripe patterns and "lickable" candy color buttons were the aesthetic opposite of the 2-bit original NeXT.
Wow, the internet was fast back then.
I wonder how slow the actual one was
Wow, the internet was fast back then.
There is some kind of easter egg when you click the white circle in the footer it opens this image https://worldwideweb.cern.ch/images/wow.jpg Some meme I don't know about?
It's interesting to use the original NeXT interface after all these years. Honestly I feel I could be very happy with a modern desktop that stuck to the NeXT principles, just updated text rendering to modern standards. 2-bit greyscale is good enough for UI widgets, especially now that we have high-DPI displays and don't necessarily need edge antialiasing anymore for vector graphics. Text labels on menus and buttons i…