Definitely. The three shells joke was actually from the growing sea life decoration trend.

Nah, see they're plastic with little motors and all.

Also, now I really want a mouse with a little reef in it.

I recall this starting in the '90s.

Palmolive is still doing it, but it’s a sea turtle now.

I never really thought about it, but this actually kind-of was a thing, wasn't it?

Pssh, playstation, i am playing Pokemon.

Audacious can still rock winamp skins.

i guess fact checking was quite a bit harder back then?

The few one's from 1990's I've come across have actually been surprisingly inaccurate with their facts. People clearly cared less about fact checking back then than nowadays.

They didn’t want to miss out on selling apps for a few bucks. Something that’s basically impossible to do with websites.

Hey what the fuck was that for

Great band!

You say "like" but you have no idea. The most of the individuality the skin in OP has comes from bitmaps. CSS is only a cool instrument for a few people who can manage it. Also I wish it would be cut out from any desktop web app framework because nobody use it in a nice way anyway, it just wastes resources.

Vector elements can also have shading and translucency without requiring a 3D engine. Easily. If the reflections don't move, there's no need to use 3D rendering for any of this.

Wait till he sees MMD3 skin for Winamp.

All you need to do to make something scalable is to design it with vector art rather than bitmaps. Even with variable resolutions, you can still make something look nice.

No, the real kicker is that nearly every 'app' these days is secretly a webpage, complete with everything that entails, pro or con.

Very little wasted space, every element has a purpose whether it is interaction, information, or separation. Elements are easily distinguished from each other. The meaning of each item is largely clear. Nearly every commonly-needed function is readily accessible and easy to find.

A+. Better than just about any modern UI.

They still had those back then. People just collectively forget the shit we had to put up with like AOL and some dial-up ISPs that provided free Internet on condition that every page loaded with an ad banner iframe at the bottom of the browser.

Not just skins. Themes in general. Windows 95, 98 and XP had MS Plus! where people could install themes like this and modify Windows to their taste. And now Microsoft won't let you switch to dark mode if you don't have Windows activated.

Customization was one of the biggest reason why I switched to Linux in the early 2000. I could apply a single GTK theme to most of my apps, in one click, while Microsoft was moving away from this. Oh the glorious days of having matching themes for XMMS and Gkrellm, with Compiz and wobbly windows. It's also why I stuck so much to GNOME 2 style of desktops and switched to MATE. I took my multiple years to give up on my favourite GTK2 theme.

But even on Linux now is either white, or boring dark gray. Still much easier to personalize though. I miss the days of ricing my desktop until it looked lit this.

you can use it today in Audacious

Audacious, one of the first programs I loved installing when I started with Linux back in 2009.

One day I well get through the dark web of dependencies needed for the visualization thing for my PiCorePlayer.

WACUP can. Don't ask me what else it can do besides DPI scaling, the dev can't bother listing new features anywhere besides a mess of changelogs. It's a Winamp mod update...thing.

https://getwacup.com/

The Web has CSS, which is like skins

Yeah. I remember it getting released and people hating it compared to the old one