It wouldn't be HN if I didn't say that I think Windows 95 had solid blue title bars rather than the 98/NT gradient. But yeah this is cool :)
NT didn't have the gradients either. 2000 did.
Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
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Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
#12This is a CSS stylesheet to theme your Hacker News in a Windows95/98 style
You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up
You could probably make a bookmarklet to pull the stylesheet from github and add it to the document stylesheets. Maybe using the new Stylesheet constructor?
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#13Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
#14To do this for Chrome, all you need is the popular Stylus extension [1] and OP can upload it to userstyles.org [2] for even more convenience (don't need to download a CSS file).
Also to be even more Windows 95-ey I recommend making the top links (new, past, etc.) look like a tab bar! (I really like the way the footer links look like a status bar.)
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...
Re: Hacker95.css – Make Hacker News look like Windows 95
#15This is a CSS stylesheet to theme your Hacker News in a Windows95/98 style
You have installation instructions for Firefox, which has like a 5% market share, yet you don't have instructions for chrome. That cracked me up
There are a few chrome extensions for adding custom CSS. Try "stylebot" or "User javascript and css", they both works ok.
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#16I’ve added a user style sheet in Safari somewhat recently to fix an annoying video player. I think it was easy to find in Settings. Can someone check if that works? Not near my laptop right now, and I use a 3rd party app on the phone.
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#17I love retro-ish design but it's often not practical or pleasing, past the initial novelty, and a reminder of why things change.
This looks excellent (from the screenshot). It reminds me of a mid-late 90s Windows Usenet newsreader, which I wouldn't mind if every web forum looked like.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
NT didn't have the gradients either. 2000 did.
Win98 did though.
That's correct. 98 was the first release to have it, chronologically speaking. 2000 was the first NT based Windows to have it.
So 98/NT didn't make sense to me. NT4, the last release to use the name NT, had a very Win95-like appearance. I also remember NT 3.51 (and I guess there were other 3.x) that had a very Win3.1-like UI despite being 32 bit.
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#19Looks nice, but the shadows on the buttons are wrong: the top and left edges should be white, the other two black. This way, the buttons look more like elements of a status bar, those had the borders reversed to produce an "inset" effect (like in this screenshot: http://173.255.209.242/chhtml/toolkit/demos/Windows/gifs/gad...)
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Win98 did though.
That's correct. 98 was the first release to have it, chronologically speaking. 2000 was the first NT based Windows to have it. So 98/NT didn't make sense to me. NT4, the last release to use the name NT, had a very Win95-like appearance. I also remember NT 3.51 (and I guess there were other 3.x) that had a very Win3.1-like UI despite being 32 bit.
Yeah you got me. Fair enough.
Windows 2000 was amazing and just my favorite OS. Saying that as a linux user.