LukitoBring back this style of UI, you cowards. Let me compute with whimsy 
Kaito@lukito so glad my investment in Toronto Pearson Airport is on the rise
Lot⁴⁹@lukito You never really needed more than 640 x 480.
Apotropaet@lukito I've been trying to find a similar looking program that was in use by my school district back in the 90s but school orientated, this is the closest I've found to it yet
Christopher 
The UI that looked like a classroom, complete with a hallway as it was logging in?
@Christopher @lukito YES. WHAT WAS THAT??
I remember it was called "NetVista" and basically it replaced the Win95/98/NT explorer shell, and added some unique functions, basically Microsoft BOB for classrooms and user management. The teacher login had a view from the teachers desk and show students enrolled in the class.
You can try Googling it, but IBM would recycle the name Netvista for their business/school PC line in the end, so you'll see NetVista PC's more.
Kaiyalai@lukito heck yeah, I love skeuomorphic design!
I was okay with it when Apple moved away with iOS… 5? 10? But would love to see its return. Especially in the podcasts app!
@lukito (not just in iOS, that’s just the biggest example to come to mind.)
Scavello@lukito when microsoft bob for windows 11?
Dr. Fyzziks@lukito Yes! On mobile too please! Bring back Magic Cap!
https://learn.adafruit.com/magic-cap-the-smartphone-os-from-the-90s/overview
Explore Magic Cap, a smartphone OS from a decade before the iPhone
Magic Cap was an operating system for PDAs (smartphone ancestors) with a lot of features that look very familiar today. We'll check it out, but the emulator runs on old Mac OS, so we need to install another emulator just to get to that one.
Owen Blacker@drfyzziks @lukito ok, some of that I can definitely get behind but wtf is the oil lamp an icon for?! 😅
@owenblacker @lukito Lol good question! I had forgotten about that. That’s the “magic lamp”, which was kind of a shortcut menu IIRC.
@drfyzziks @lukito Ooookay 😅
(Thank you)
@owenblacker @lukito From the Magic Cap UI manual, page 142:
The Commands window opens when the Magic lamp is touched. The Commands
window includes miscellaneous commands and rules. Some commands and rules are
available everywhere; in addition to these, scenes can add their own commands and
rules to the Magic lamp. The available commands can vary depending on whether
construction mode is turned on.
http://joshcarter.com/magic_cap/docs/Magic_Cap_User_Interface_Spec.pdf
Jon Yoder@lukito It's still around in some places. This is a screenshot of one part of Patterson EagleSoft, a dental practice management suite one of my clients uses. It's not as whimsical, but it definitely bears some resemblance.
Mx Autumn 
@lukito I absolutely love interfaces like these, skeuomorphic design should make a comeback.
Leon Bambrick@lukito why is home a book on the shelf ? Are books magical transportation portals oh my
HP van Braam@lukito Working on it...
a holosprite 
@lukito Dentists know what's up, this was still current as of two years ago
@lukito (other dental software also does this!)
Gytis Repečka
Brandon@lukito jumpstart games computing
Fingel@lukito what tailwind class do I use for the grain of the desk
Moved to @@lukito With the rise of Mixed Reality headsets along with VR stuff we might see this actually become more common place again, who knows.
Democracy Matters 
Mikael Lundin 🍀🥦♻️
Gurre Vildskägg@mikaellundin Loved that game. Extra fun points if you find a German language version: Öl Imperium
:D
:D
richardwild@lukito My only problem with that UI is that the exit is a mouse hole; I can't fit through that
Irina@richardjwild @lukito But your mouse can!
llewelly@lukito
pretty sure this room was in DejaVu or Uninvited.
pretty sure this room was in DejaVu or Uninvited.
Cenbe@lukito please god no
Gorka Telleria
Matt Willemsen@lukito Glad to see someone else liked Lotus Smartsuite 95.
Andrew@lukito big fan of trapezoid click targets
Niels Nielsen, geographer@lukito First impression: cute, nostalgic
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)@lukito They did…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Bob
Detailed overview: http://toastytech.com/guis/bob.html
Tattie@lukito haha, yeah! My first PC had Packard Bell Navigator as the default UI-- you had to specifically click into Windows!
xenolon@lukito There's a whole book UI designers are taught about why not to do this!
Cassandrich@lukito That's what the "AI" folks are already doing.. I like to call OpenAI "Microsoft Bob 2.0".
vxo@lukito I immediately remembered the guitar riffs in the beginning of Rush's YYZ seeing that :D
Renalia - #1 pizza downloader@lukito there had better be a completely pointless but fun little easter egg to interact with on that ui as well or SO HELP ME GOD
buherator@lukito My dentist uses a patient mgmt software with a very similar UI (probably .NET by the looks of it)
Arcticulate@lukito I enjoyed Windows 3.1, overall, on a 486/SX with 8 MB RAM. Very minimalistic compared to Windows 95 and later editions.
mosttoast@lukito KDE on top, I-Spy on the bottom
@lukito does anyone remember "Doors for Windows"? It was a kind of UI dividing one's computer interface into rooms, I think. (early 1990s?) The words are so generic that search is impossible.
keithzg@lukito Microsoft Bob shall rise again
mrpieceofwork@lukito MY accounting job faced a WALL, and behind that wall was a hallway. Certainly no window, let alone TWO lol