ahhh this whole thing is so great! psyched to see something of mine included in this list (Minesweeper / winmine-exe.now.sh) among all these other awesome works. thanks for putting this together!
Websites that look like desktop GUIs
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#82Is there a case anyone can think of (other than backward compatibility with legacy workflows and expectations) that one would write a new browser app with an old desktop OS look and feel?
That is, are there use cases that a classic OS's GUI excels at more than the typical web or mobile/tablet app GUI, that we have lost due to the typical style and behavior of the latter types of apps? I mean both the interaction model of the windows and menus themselves, and also the look and behavior of elements used to render content.
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#83Fascinated and feeling surreal, that I was able to load Doom and check it out on my phone's web browser in https://www.windows93.net/ .
Wow, there's so much stuff in the Dosbox emulator. I fired up Turbo C for the first time since 1990! (the compiler didn't work at first though -- had to change the INCLUDE directory settings)
And GW-BASIC!
10 PRINT "Hello World"
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RUN
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#84I have nothing to add to this conversation other than to say how much I love each of these. It really takes me back to a time when I fell in love with computers, and how much endless exploration and excitement they represented. Thank you sharing this – it's nice to remember those feelings.
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#85https://webamp.org/ this really took me back! Even the equalizer works, and the magnetic window stickiness!
The winxp has it also https://winxp.now.sh/
Comes with a game, paint and notepad.
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#86Interesting collection. Between the veritable homages (AV notification included) [0] and reinterpretations for various purposes (e.g., music player [1]), it's a fun mix! It also reminded me of the Nielsen Norman article exploring flat design and comparing it to three-dimensional design [2]. While it's becoming less and less possible, it would be interesting to compare the experience across different UX patterns for f…
These are interesting resources, thank you. One sentence stuck out to me in [2]:
> Early pseudo-3D GUIs and Steve-Jobs-esque skeuomorphism often produced heavy, clunky interfaces.
I think that this is an aesthetic assessment, not one that speaks to usability. And while older interfaces were aesthetically clunky, newer interfaces are functionally clunky - often hiding functionality (hamburger menu) and wasting content space in exchange for the whitespace necessary to separate elements without skeuomorphic signifiers.
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#87Ha, well done. I really enjoyed Ash Kyd's site. https://ash.ms/
His blog is amazing (Start > Documents > Blogs). I love being able to open multiple blog posts in different windows. And the most amazing thing: it doesn't even feel like a website. The windows open almost instantaneously.
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#88> You're currently viewing the No-JavaScript version of the site, what a boring life you must live! Just has a simple rule: open any unknown website with JavaScript disabled. Permanently.
Personally, I was really impressed by the level of attention given to the no-JS version!
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#90Thanks for the excellent link. I enjoyed the site, and the fun little easter egg for removing the 'bugs'. I was browsing on a very low powered device, so some of it took quite some time to load.. just to emulate things that would have run on a device 10% as powerful as this! How ironic.
How were loading times after the initial loadup? I found almost every one of these (especially this https://ash.ms/) be extremely fast compared to 'modern' websites. I'm wondering why more websites can't do whatever it is they're doing to load things fast.