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Not directly related, but look at this Mac OS 9 screenshot from the article:

https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/macos914...

Look at the contrast. Look at the buttons. Look at the scrollbars. Look at the readability. Look at the clear button labels.

If only our computers still looked like that...

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Man you got me on readability. Just yesterday I had to input a random string WiFi password in a printer with only arrow keys to select each character. The password had an upper-case I in it but the moronic designers of the little password label that came with the router selected a font where “I” and “l” are indistinguishable. Took me like ten minutes to get the damn thing connected.

I only got it right because I looked up the password on my Mac, whose keychain app displays them in gloriously readable monospaced font. FFS

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