I hate the modern ones you need to hover above so they even display, and then it's 1 pixel wide and a shade of grey that's about 2% darker than white.
Less functional and 500 lines of js garbage.

Now you can't even find the fucking thing when you need it. Thanks, "UX design".

I like how they added some grip between 2001 - 2009 so you would have some traction when you used then

2009, pls.

But I guess with the end caps from 2006.

1998 was truly the best time. When all OS widgets looked the same. And could be used in apps, and everything had a consistent look. Yeah you could override this in your app. But fuck people who did that. Everything looked so nice and uniform and you knew what to expect from a widget and its look and behavior. Get off my lawn.

1998 was in my formative years with computers, so I will always be partial to it. Xfce can get pretty close.

2012? Elder? Cmon, it wasn't that long ago... wait... no...

And then they got thinner every year while screens got wider..

I miss my big chonky scroll bars. now they hide them.

1998 not only had the best scrollbar, but the best UI overall. Shoulda just stopped then and we would have utopia by now

Definitely either 88 or 98. Large, very visible, no bullshit. I prefer 98, but would also be perfectly happy with 88. The reason I like 98 better than 88 is because 98, while not as high of contrast, is closer to if it's physically there, with shadows and stuff, and therefore visually faster recognizable as a scroll bar, it's more intuitive.

By 2026 AI does the scrolling for you, a feature made mandatory (all scrollbars removed) in 2028 😭

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2020

1988 still the best one, somehow

Do you remember the feel of switching from 1998 to 2001? It felt like stepping into the future.

It never got better than 1998

We peaked in 2009

I miss that glass aesthetic from 2001

2009 was peak

'98 to '09 was the sweet spot. Textures make the page slider easier to spot and use.

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Man, we had it right from 1998 to 2001, it only went downhill after that...

We've gotta bring back frutiger aero.

I'm partial to 2006