Old UI resources thread:
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Favorite old UI resources on the internet:
https://winworldpc.com/ 
and especially
http://toastytech.com/guis/indexshells.html
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https://guidebookgallery.org/tutorials/windows95
"This tutorial comes from 1995 and was included on a Windows 95 CD."

(adding new stuff to this thread again because of relevance to what i'm doing :) also this is a good website, can't remember if i posted this here before)

Free software that came up with creative ways of "remember to register"
("remember to register" is a good aesthetic!!)

i feel like a lot of the writing/tone in games at that time where affected by developer frustrations to get people to just register & pay

switching from rendered 3D to pixel art (switching aesthetic) is something I remember seeing a lot of.

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that's why i like early software/games, because they did the weirdest shit, and identifying/working with that is fascinating.

AAAaaAAaaAAAh!!!! I DID IT! I can post (some?) things to the thread, so yay the thread lives.Twitter doesn't like some links so I'm going to use tiny url to post them. I'm sorry for flooding with test tweets.
This is the link it didn't like, and it's a really cool article, so...

AtheOS
http://mobile.osnews.com/printer.php?news_id=322
a discontinued free and open source operating system for x86-based computers. It was initially intended as an AmigaOS clone, but that objective was later abandoned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AtheOS 

i think what is interesting about old abandoned systems is the software
how was the software that eventually got abandoned and forgotten? how were the games? :)
just as a concept this is really interested to explore; deterioration & abandonment in a virtual environment.

"Hi, I'm Neko. If you want to play chase the mouse, just click on me."
http://webneko.net/?kina 
this page still exists :) it's MySpace, Xanga...level old. seeing things like this still around is a pure delight if not for any other reason but for the creative era they represent.

...I miss the goofy little useless extras (like virtual pets, etc...) that websites and software used to have. it really humanized & personalized computers in a special way. it's cool to look back at it and think about how you could re-apply some of that to what you make today.

lol !!