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Am I crazy to be nostalgic for UI color schemes like this? It's the article's screenshot of Alias/3, a 1993 modeller on SGI IRIX:

https://camo.githubusercontent.com/18e1b1dc60d23f72852f2a844...

Ok, the non-proportional fonts gets an unqualified thumbs down. But the warm beige and teal — I could chill out to this instead of the endless cool expanses of 100% white and 98% white featured in today's desktop operating systems.

The computer where this application ran probably looked like this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Onyx

Black and purple for the hardware, beige and teal for the software. Perfect 1990s contrasts!



I think I am the crazy one, because that UI looks more futuristic than some of the ones we got right now, with look like a kindergarten.




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