CERN 2019 WorldWideWeb Rebuild
worldwideweb.cern.ch
worldwideweb.cern.ch
2-bit greyscale is good enough for UI widgets, especially now that we have high-DPI displays and don't necessarily need edge antialiasing anymore for vector graphics.
Text labels on menus and buttons is such an improvement over the undecipherable "flat school" icons that are currently used everywhere.
My Manjaro-i3 environment worked out of the box and had all of the things you'd expect (wifi icon, volume icon, battery indicator etc). The only reason I had to configure anything at all is because of personal taste. I find the Manjaro WM packages pretty good, personally.
But aside from tiling window managers, Manjaro also has pre-packaged distributions with Openbox, XFCE, Budgie, Mate and Deepin and a few other less lightweight environments like KDE and Gnome. There's also the "architect edition" which does require a bunch of configuration.
I usually just run nmtui in a terminal.
Edit: oh, that's some sort of ui opening command?
If you sat someone in front of custom configured i3wm, they would not have a clue how to do anything, really. The point is that the owner can have a nice customized and highly effective experience of using a computer.
There's a way to configure wifi easily without an icon, with some text based menus and nmtui is one way to do it if you use NetworkManager. You don't need an icon/GUI. Also there's nm-applet, so you can have a tray icon and GUI even in these DEs.
Ha, used a little MacBook for essentially the first time 2 days ago, it was being used to present a slideshow (MS Powerpoint). I tried to advance beyond the end of the slide stack and it closed to the editor [terrible UX for me, IMO it should blank the screen and show a message on the laptop; maybe that's the default, wasn't my machine obvs], I was completely lost trying to scroll the slide chooser (left pane) as there was no scroll bar, and no pgup/pgdn keys, click-scroll [which works in other UI that I use] was rearranging the slides instead of scrolling. It's so easy to get lost in unfamiliar UI.
We can easily adapt if we want to, however.
And the column-based file browser never appealed to me.
I do agree that a high-res black and white screen is so much better for text related tasks than what we had back then in PC land. 640x480x16 colors was a mess. Worked fine for things like CAD but kind of gross to type documents on.
That's actually my favorite feature of the Finder and really the only thing I miss when using Windows sometimes. Using arrow keys + typing a letter or two to jump through dirs, and being able to see full hierarchy the whole time works really well with my mental model of the filesystem in a way the tree-based list view never does.
On a supposedly state of the art Mac G4, it ran like a lobotomized sloth mostly because of the heavy new graphics stack. The giant fonts, translucent titlebars, pinstripe patterns and "lickable" candy color buttons were the aesthetic opposite of the 2-bit original NeXT.
A lot of folks fondly remember Snow Leopard but for me the golden era for OS X was 10.2 - 10.4. 10.5 and 10.6 were great too, but honestly speaking I wouldn’t be bothered if I had to use a modern version of 10.4 for day to day work.
IIRC, Leopard was a bit of a disappointment. It was delayed because they moved engineers to work on the first iPhone... And that's pretty much when Mac stopped being a priority at Apple.
Very interesting. My first Mac was an OS9 machine that came out so close to the release of OSX that it came with a free upgrade coupon.
I had a NeXT at work at the same time, and my memory is that the two environments were significantly different. Different enough that I gave the OS9 machine to my wife when OSX came out because it was so easy to use (she had a PS/2).
Some meme I don't know about?
I'm surprised this had no support for the <ol> tag because numbered lists aren't rendering.
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Edit: yeah I just noticed how all the links on every page have the domain part changed to worldwideweb.cern.ch.
But damn I can't help but remember Newton's "If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." Tim BL did not invent URIs, TCP/IP, domain names, or hypertext. He simply figured out a brilliant way to combine all these things together. Satoshi Nakamoto did not invent hashing, proof-of-work, signatures, or any of the other cryptographic protocols that make Bitcoin possible. Likewise, he simply put all these different ideas together in a brilliant way.
(The type world being a small one, this design had assistance from David Jonathan Ross, the designer of the Input coding typeface)
Which returns full circle to "AOL keywords"...
Browsing different adresses proved difficult, it only worked for me by editing the URL and loading the page in a new tab.