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A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (blog.codinghorror.com)
submitted 1 year ago by lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retronet@lemmy.sdf.org
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I unironically used this theme when I was a kid!

what kind of themes did you use to customize your operating systems or software?

Did you keep the standard themes or did you spend hours customizing the look and feel?

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[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have any screenshots?

[–] lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have any, but I believe this is the default so you can get an idea of just how intense it is

[–] emr@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My eyes!

[–] cfenollosa@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Now imagine that #FF0000 on a CRT screen 😎

[–] lwhjp@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yes! Not so much themes, but I got a demo copy of a Windows 3.1 shell called Wayfarer from a magazine cover disk, and spent many happy hours setting that up. Also creating mashups of the standard wallpapers in Paintbrush, and fiddling with ChromaZone.

[–] matogoro@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ah yes, Windows 3.1 Hot Dog Stand: great color scheme or greatest color scheme?

I also really loved making custom wallpapers with custom pixel patterns. What a throwback

[–] johnpeters42@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

I used to spend more time on such things, even to the point of replacing Windows Explorer with Blackbox at least once. Nowadays I just scrounge some wallpapers off the web and put them on rotate.