What if Microsoft released an operating system in the chasm between Windows 3.1 and Windows 95? It might look something like Windows 93, an interactive art project by Jankenpopp and Zombectro that you can try right in your browser.
What if Microsoft released an operating system in the chasm between Windows 3.1 and Windows 95? It might look something like Windows 93, an interactive art project by Jankenpopp and Zombectro that you can try right in your browser.
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http://www.fastcodesign.com/3037721/try-windows-93-the-hilarious-os…
http://www.windows93.net
Apparently they were quite ahead of their time. Notice how Win93 smoothly integrates the modern KDE Oxygen scrollbars into their filemanager…
http://s28.postimg.org/54x6s8n4t/snapshot6.png
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Or somebody at KDE had access to this design back in the day…
Hey, it could happen! (As soon as we invent time-travel, that is.)
I am guessing they forgot to theme that scrollbar so it is using your KDE oxygen or oxygen-gtk theme on your browser (your browser is themeing it). Are you using firefox or konqueror or a qtwebkit browser?
Edited 2014-10-30 19:03 UTC
Firefox with Oxygen GTK theme.
Edited 2014-10-31 03:26 UTC
I wish I could try out every linux distro this way.
No one had such a smooth non amiga desktop system back then. They should have had more sleeps and random slow downs, then sudden speedups.
Trying to launch one instance of a application:
Double click at normal rate.
wait 1 minute
Double click at faster rate
wait 1 minute
Double click fast as humanly possible
wait 1 minute
CLIKC CLICK CKCICLLCICKCICLCICKCICLLCKCICIIICIKCIKCCKKC
Wait 1 minute
hit enter 5 times
Wait 2 minutes
10 copies of application launch at the same time, exhaust system memory => crash
That’s the windows of the early 90’s. Not this smooth graphics everywhere with instant launches.
The command prompt can’t even run ver. well done, but at the same time, kind of half-assed
Submit a patch
Can’t, Windows isn’t opensource. Especially in 1993
It is open source, but they’re using visual sourcesafe, so obtaining the global edit lock is next to impossible in any useful timeframe.
I meant Windows isn’t opensource…
I was making ‘a funny’ but never mind
So was I
So it’s a perfect initiation of Windows then?
There’s nothing 1993 about this…and it’s just ridiculous to look at…it’s a mixture of Windows 9.x and XP if anything.
It’s not in any way meant to be serious.
Unless you want to take it seriously?
You can’t be serious, right?
1) Make something called Windows 93 that has no resemblance to 1993 and pass it off as trying to be funny with no relation at all to what you’re calling it.
2)???
3) Profit…
Edited 2014-11-04 12:07 UTC
You must be a hoot at parties.
Just so you know. You can test and see how AmigaOS works a bit going to TAWS website:
http://www.taws.ch/WB.html
Very nice site!
Interesting.
I also enjoyed the Guru Meditation error you get when JavaScript is disabled. ;^)
I can’t find the hidden pron folder on the win93 filesystem. Where’s it?
Probably in a directory named ALT+255.
The UI looks great, or atleast not as crappy as Windows 8.
To have win8 foundation an the win2k ui is the dream of every windows machine service guy and enterprise user since windows 95 came out. Win95 (Cairo) was awful not only for the obvious ways, but at least it did not waste too much screen real estate, win2k was to this day the last really good microsoft OS that i would actually buy with my own money even though i get free licenses for the consumer garbage at work.
Gimme W9 with the revolutionary W95 or even litestep interfaces well integrated and i would be a happy gal.
Agreed that Windows 2K was the last (IMO only) decent version.
Windows 95 was Chicago, though, not Cairo (which never completely materialized).
If you look at it now they have made a Halloween version!
… to the UI design paradigm that has infested Microsoft software in the past several years, which in many ways goes back to some of the worst aspect of the “bad old days”, except back then it was hardware limitations and now it’s just UI design departments (apparently) being taken over by feral monkeys.
The first thing I’d thought of when I saw Windows 8 was a phrase from the Jargon file way back in the 1980s: Angry Fruit Salad.
Although Windows 10 mitigates this somewhat, it’s still there.