• kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        37·
        vor 3 Monaten

        I was in the hospital in 2015 and was talking to the person next to me. He realised I was in IT and as he turned his laptop to me he’s like I can’t seem to view websites anymore with toolbars up the wazoo. It was already a throwback even at that time

        Edit: wording

        • vaionko@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          10·
          vor 3 Monaten

          My old motherboard’s driver disc from 2015 would install Google toolbar if you weren’t careful

          • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            7·
            vor 3 Monaten

            Aaah the good old “next next next install” you open the browser some time later with a surprise toolbar

        • toynbee@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          vor 3 Monaten

          In ~2005 I was at a job that provided tech support to local hospitals. That’s the first time I saw this image and … It didn’t strike me as too unrealistic.

          At that job I once spent seventeen minutes on the phone trying to help a nurse find the semicolon on her keyboard.

          • kernelle@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
            3·
            vor 3 Monaten

            Times didn’t change! Anyone that provided any large scale tech support to the actual average person understands that tech is indistinguishable from magic to them

      • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
        35·
        vor 3 Monaten

        A lot of people installed this shit. Because they’re visiting fuckmybeaniebabies.net and a popup is like “Install our spam bar for a chance to win herpes!” And they happily click ok.

        • I Cast Fist@programming.devEnglish
          15·
          vor 3 Monaten

          A lot of people still do that, but it’s “Do you want your phone/computer to constantly nag you with browser notifications about our spam?” and they click “Yes!”

          • igmelonh@feddit.onlineEnglish
            2·
            vor 3 Monaten

            Ugh. Yeah, my mom intentionally allows push notifications from Amazon, Temu, tons of fast food chains, and a bunch of other sources on her phone. It goes off like every thirty seconds.

            I don’t get push notifications unless it’s a text or a 2FA email. And for that matter, I don’t understand how people get so many emails or, if they start to, why they don’t unsubscribe from or block all the spam. I get an average of maybe 3 emails a week on my personal accounts.

    • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
      14·
      vor 3 Monaten

      How’d you get a screenshot of my mom’s desktop as I found it when I’d be home from college, cir. 2003?

    • Blaster M@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      vor 3 Monaten

      I’ve seen this toolbar hell before. I’ve had to clean many a pc of this toolbar hell before.

      • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
        5·
        vor 3 Monaten

        I’d always have to do this crap to our old Sony VAIO desktop (that was mine, until I went to college and my mom took it over). Then my mom would get mad that I “messed up the computer” because I’d delete this crap and apparently she used it?

  • snowsuit2654@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    179·
    vor 3 Monaten

    I feel like some of the old cluttered WoW UIs might be an example of maximalism, by trying to show as much information as possible. altr

    • 9point6@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1061·
      vor 3 Monaten

      Eve players: noooo… It’s not just a spreadsheet

      Veteran WoW players: hmm… I can still see the actual gameplay, lemme add another stat display

    • zikzak025@lemmy.world
      361·
      vor 3 Monaten

      The 15 FPS indicator is the icing on the cake.

      The standards we used to put up with…

      • bleistift2@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        274·
        vor 3 Monaten

        The standards we used to put up with…

        Back when games were measured by how enjoyable they were rather than a little number in the corner.

          • zikzak025@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            vor 3 Monaten

            It was a different time, the novelty of the experience made up for the lower frame rate. A stable 30fps used to be considered good, and 15fps was fine for a game like WoW which didn’t really need to rely on buttery smooth gameplay.

            The internet was also just a lot slower back then, too, so in one sense the framerate only needed to be as good as your ping, essentially.

    • wander1236@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      33·
      vor 3 Monaten

      This looks like when you first discover that your Linux desktop environment supports adding infinite taskbars

    • TheObviousSolution@lemmy.caEnglish
      8·
      vor 3 Monaten

      This is what I would actually consider maximalist UI. OP’s is neither minimal or maximal, it’s just overstylized UI.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      vor 3 Monaten

      Lol I had all of those and then some but I also had enough resolution/UI scale that it was all tucked to the sides (other than the nice looking hp/mana bars that framed the middle of the screen).

      Did the people who stood in fire do so because they couldn’t even see what they were or weren’t standing in? Should guilds have done fund raising to buy better GPUs and monitors to best help progression? Thinking back to when I had a hand in guild leadership, it didn’t even occur to me to base any recruitment or raiding roster on PC specs, but it seems so obvious now in hindsight. Too bad I can’t go back.

    • alsimoneau@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      vor 3 Monaten

      That’s not so bad. I have more than this, but with a larger screen you have more space.

      So this is a healer. They barely need to see anything anyways.

    • Tuuktuuk@nord.pubEnglish
      32·
      vor 3 Monaten

      That is probably what the image in the post is about, really.

      It’s supposed to make the program more accessible for those who are not used to the concept of computer programs at all.

      • 4am@lemmy.zipEnglish
        121·
        vor 3 Monaten

        It will come back when all the big players are only offering cloud services, to ensure normies don’t demand that computing be allowed in the hands of everyone again. “It’s so easy to use! Why couldn’t those old PC things get it right? God those were terrible, I’m so glad we subscribe to ChatGPT for $80 a month, and those scary Muslim leftists get ion-cannoned when they have conversations about how they want life to be better instantly now.”

    • calcopiritus@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      vor 3 Monaten

      Don’t please.

      I remember these UIs and learning after many hours that one of the elements was clickable.

      This is horrible design from a usability standpoint.

    • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      vor 3 Monaten

      You say that, but that’s what Apple has been doing with Liquid Glass, and tons of people hate it, myself included

      • ViatorOmnium@piefed.socialEnglish
        431·
        vor 3 Monaten

        Liquid Glass is WindowsVistaMorphism done wrong not Skeuomorphism. Skeuomorphism requires the UI to at least approximate real life objects for each use case.

        • FrChazzz@lemmus.orgEnglish
          6·
          vor 3 Monaten

          Like the old Notes app on the iPhone/iPad that looked like it was a yellow legal pad!

      • dustyData@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        vor 3 Monaten

        Liquid glass is not skeuomorphism, it’s just Windows Aero 20 years later. Simulating the realistic look of single material and using it for all the interface is quite the opposite of skeuomorphism. As such things don’t exist in real life. There were never music stereo players made entirely of glass. So they are not imitating anything that has ever existed.

      • Zwiebel@feddit.orgEnglish
        63·
        vor 3 Monaten

        As an android user liquid glass is the only apple thing i’m envious of. Android looks boring af, a little playfulness doesn’t hurt

  • cannedtuna@lemmy.worldEnglish
    66·
    vor 3 Monaten

    And you just know the globe rotates when you hover over Habitats, and the drawers pull out when you hover over those

    • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      51·
      vor 3 Monaten

      I had this as a kid. It absolutely did all of those things, and the intro cutscene showed this menu as just one nook in a giant museum with other things to see. I had a few of their other games as well.

      I can all but guarantee that a lot of the curiosity and enthusiasm for learning that I had as a kid was directly thanks to these edutainment games. Compared to my overwhelming adult apathy it really stands out.

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      6·
      vor 3 Monaten

      And a little lizard runs across the bottom every once in a while! I had a Czech version, very painstakingly localized (but nothing beat The Way Things Work).

    • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
      5·
      vor 3 Monaten

      Seeing this helps me understand older sci-fi better, the ones where people access the computer as a virtual reality office which leads to other things. It makes sense that the authors would assume VR as the natural progression of a UI like this.

      It seems like when personal computers were new they tried to replicate the familiar to ease new users in, but now that we’re all very used to them we’ve abandoned the concept almost entirely. I feel like we might be in the beginning of a trend back to it though, now that our internet connections and graphical abilities are more up to the task.

    • RagingRobot@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      vor 3 Monaten

      It could still be done in an accessible way. Back when this style was popular though, accessibility on the web hadn’t advanced much. Now we have all kinds of tools to help

      • stray@pawb.socialEnglish
        1·
        vor 3 Monaten

        I’ve watched a blind person play FF14. Making a fun-looking static UI accessible is a piece of cake compared to that.

  • ravelin@slrpnk.netEnglish
    27·
    vor 3 Monaten

    There was this while concept at the time that digital interfaces should mirror familiar physical interfaces in order to be easily understood by users, and it’s fascinating and honestly not without value.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    25·
    vor 3 Monaten

    I can practically hear my external CD drive spinning up just looking at these. Makes me want to play a Sierra game real bad.

  • RedFrank24@piefed.socialEnglish
    24·
    vor 3 Monaten

    Back when all screens were more-or-less the same size and nothing ever had to scale. Your UI was the size it was, and if your screen was too big, too bad! You can either stretch it and deal with the pixelly mess, or squint your eyes to see the teeeny tiny program.