windows 95 looked the way it did, not because the people making it thought it was the optimal look, but due to hardware limitations.
A designer in 1995 seeing you waste a modern 4k LCD monitor’s potential to display blurry low res 256 color icons? They would think you are clinically insane.
A designer in 1995 seeing you waste a modern 4k LCD monitor’s potential to display blurry low res 256 color icons? They would think you are clinically insane.