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

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

The 15 FPS indicator is the icing on the cake.

The standards we used to put up with...

This takes me back.

WARNING: SEMEN LOW

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

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.

I really wish I still had time for WoW.. Sigh.

Mmmmm shadow bars

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.

what do you call someone with no arms or legs in a pool? . Bob

Is this supposed to be on a farm? What’s going on outside that window?

I remember customizing this! What a throwback!

XMMS is able to use Winamp skins. This one seems to be WMP, but that one copied the concept of crazy skins from Winamp.

Winamp has been open sourced https://github.com/alexfreud/winamp

Qmmp might fit the bill, I apply old winamp skins to it for a nostalgia fix

ew windows media player

Oh look, my grandparents PC circa 2005

Banzai Buddy!

My neighbor intentionally installed that shit on his family PC when we were like 15.

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

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCGD92DDsvc

Oh my Deity

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.

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.

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.

For those who are unfamiliar (like me): Skeumorph

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.

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

This shit still exists on windows and I fucking hate it

Skeuomorphism

"For VGA 640x480 256 colors"

Is that Truespace?