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Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

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Post by freshollie »

Gualdrapo wrote: post #42
redox99 wrote: post #8

Is there a reason why it looks like Temu's Windows XP? Copyright concerns I guess?

Not sure why they downvoted you because you have a point - icons are not the same as Windows XP's, wallpaper flat color reminds me more of Win 95/98 and the taskbar design has some details that do not match precisely with Windows XP's. I'd also bet it's due to copyright concerns

Probably cos it's vibe coded?

The main CSS comes from XP.css [0], but the AI additions [1] have definitely messed it up in some way.

The whole thing is pure JS which is nice but the comments give a good impression isn't not hand written IMO [2]

[0]: https://github.com/botoxparty/XP.css/

[1]: https://explorer.samismith.com/css/base.css

[2]: https://explorer.samismith.com/js/explorer.js

Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

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Post by dwedge »

cube00 wrote: post #37

This is really impressive. It's exactly what I imagined the original Microsoft Network in Windows 95 would have been like. And so The Microsoft Network wasn't a program you loaded like CompuServe. It was part of the OS, with folder icons that looked just like real folders. It was a kind of version of the Web where you could browse online data the same way you browsed your file system. This is what made it cool. It wa…

That really sounds like the idea behind Plan9. Interesting.

Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

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Post by jwr »

Large scrollbars! Windows with borders! What a relief!

This has become a forgotten art: we focus so much on CONTENT these days that we forget that people want to use the mouse to scroll, and use the mouse to resize windows.

Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

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Post by chuckadams »

hliyan wrote: post #28

Incredibly beautiful, possibly because it maps so well to the mental model we typically use to organize knowledge in our heads. I don't know how we lost the folder/container vs. document/content iconography, and other things (like layout of items, sorting) during the shift to web applications.

I dunno, I never had a "Sheep Looking at Viewer" category in my mental model until I randomly clicked around the media folder.

Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

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Post by chuckadams »

dewey wrote: post #3

The shininess looks a bit more like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Media_Center_Editio... and not like the regular Windows XP, but still a fun project!

Definitely not MCE: the title bars are bright blue with the "Fisher-Price" orange buttons, which was the hallmark of regular XP.

Re: Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

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Post by angilr »

pratio wrote: post #27
angilr wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! TIL that Propofol has a nickname "Milk of amnesia". MJ asked more milk which meant more propofol.

Here's Robin Williams describing it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOIBBE3ObRY He calls taking propofol for sleep as Having chemotherapy because you're tired of shaving your head

It's funny, haha. Thank you for the link!
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