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Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

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Post by danirod »

One nerdy detail about old operating systems and graphics cards: due to the way the VGA color palette works, the teal background used in Windows 98 and earlier versions of Windows was actually lighter than #008080 if the computer was configured to use 16 colors (not 256 colors):

https://twitter.com/bakertechsrvcs/status/162629846037367193...

https://xcancel.com/bakertechsrvcs/status/162629846037367193...

Another nerdy detail: the default background color on Windows XP was different depending on whether the theme was Luna or Classic. On Classic it is the same one as Windows 2000, but for Luna it is more blueish. I understand the denial, but it will be the 25st anniversary of the XP release in a few months, so it probably qualifies as classic by now.

Re: Show HN: Desktopcolors.com – A museum for solid background colors of classic OS

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Post by rideontime »

flowercalled wrote: post #6

I can understand using an llm to build your website. But I can't understand using it to write copy, especially when it's so unnecessary here.

Seconded. The "personality" it tries to add is trite and tiresome and everybody immediately sees it for what it is, especially for a case like this where there's only so many ways to say "this is the default desktop color of an operating system." Not only that, but it's confusing - is "Windows Classic blue" a real thing, or just an attempt at a cute phrase? Just label the colors and be done with it.
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