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   Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 19:51:13 JST Niki Tonsky

   Can we all just agree UI design peaked here?

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     Marty Fouts (martyfouts@mastodon.online)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Mar-2025 22:39:05 JST Marty Fouts

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     @nikitonsky UI design peaked with curses on the VT100. 😜

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:22:03 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • extrowerk

     @extrowerk I always though of Motif as brutalist because of its ugly grey

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     extrowerk (extrowerk@mastodon.bsd.cafe)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:22:04 JST extrowerk

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     @nikitonsky This is the so-called brutalist-style.

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:27:57 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • Stephen Ward

     @aukondk So much worse is so many details. But it might be due to it being cross-platform and run on a platform it was not developed on. Do you have a screenshot from its native environment?

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     Stephen Ward (aukondk@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 19:27:58 JST Stephen Ward

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     @nikitonsky I'm glad Libreoffice has stuck with it. I always get lost if I ever need to use any version of Word with the 'ribbon'

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     Niki Tonsky (nikitonsky@mastodon.online)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:37:59 JST Niki Tonsky

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     • blaue_Fledermaus

     @blaue_Fledermaus screenshot of word of that era?

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     blaue_Fledermaus (blaue_fledermaus@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 20-Mar-2025 20:38:00 JST blaue_Fledermaus

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     @nikitonsky
     My personal opinion is that the peak was the Frutiger Aero design of Windows Vista/7