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I actually know several people who regularly visit the 3C with their families and children. There are a lot of cool activities for kids from a certain age (10-ish). Even without all the social programm, there are plenty of talks which are interesting to non-IT people.

I just added the C64, based on pepto's colodore palette: https://desktopcolors.com/os/commodore-64.


For anyone interested in a celebratory flashback: set your desktop background color to #008080 (https://desktopcolors.com/os/windows-95).


I preferred the slate theme


I own a GW-M5610U G-Shock. It's the bread and butter G-Shock, which comes with solar, radio control, and the old-school red bezel. No Bluetooth, no tracking, no connectivity.

Like many people I know, I went from Apple Watch to a "dumb" Casio, as an escape from the attention grabbing information gateway on my wrist. It was surprisingly easy to leave smart and tracking features behind.

Having a dumb watch also enables me to leave my smartphone in the backpack and checking the time whithout seeing how many messages I got. And since I don't have to charge my watch and it's virtually indestructible, I can forget about it unless I want to know the time, start a timer, set an alarm etc.

I feel like this was the single most important move to switch from devices which are controlling me, back to me controlling my devices.


I'm thinking of doing the same. I got a Samsung Watch FE a couple of years ago and the only reason I used it was for the heart rate monitor and sleep tracking. But it's a hassle having to recharge it every day, so I'm willing to move to a OG Casio again.


Ah, I can see! The dots mark years (not OSs) since multiple OSs might use the same color in the same release year. However, you're totally right: the tooltip is dearly missing since it would make just that obvious - and also a default action when clicking a dot.


Thanks! I didn't use any screenshots as sources, because I a) wanted to scrape all possible options, b) want to make sure the default is really what you would get after a fresh install and c) was afraid that a screenshot might introduce some kind of color drift, compared to the original value the OS defines.

I mostly used things like the fantastic Virtual OS Museum (https://virtualosmuseum.org/), run-in-browser VMs like PCJs Machines (https://www.pcjs.org/blog/2015/09/21/) or real installations inside a VM. I tried to avoid using Color Pickers etc. and read the actual value from the OS somehow (e.g. copy the HEX value shown in the UI), but in some cases, I had to go with the macOS Digital Colour Meter (set to sRGB).


Oh wow, I never used OpenWindows and I just googled it. I definitely need that in the collection! Noted :)


Noted. Plan9/Rio was actually on my list for the initial release, but it is currently broken in the Virtual OS Museum (https://virtualosmuseum.org/) and I couldn't find any other reliable sources.

But it's still on the todo list and I've also added NeXTSTEP.


Added, along with all other styles featuring solid color backgrounds :) https://desktopcolors.com/os/blackbox


AFAIK, the actual color was highly dependent on the hardware used (e.g. video adapter, CRT, etc.). That's why photographs of a Windows 1.0 screen might look vastly different.

The color I listed is what Windows outputs on the software side. It's pretty much an EGA dither of bright cyan and bright green. It's what you would get with todays hardware.


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