I may never have mastered vim but in Winamp 2 I had Q (queue) and J (jump to & alt-Q queue) absolutely nailed. Even with my peasantlike 15k tracks I felt like a boss navigating around my collection-as-a-playlist in split-second bursts of keyboard scrabbling. Sadly these shortcuts didn't make it into Winamp 5. Ever since, it's always struck me how popular music player UIs have become slower - doing the equivalent search/queue in Spotify or Apple Music might require the mouse and waiting for loading spinners.
Ah yes! Not so much themes, but I got a demo copy of a Windows 3.1 shell called Wayfarer from a magazine cover disk, and spent many happy hours setting that up. Also creating mashups of the standard wallpapers in Paintbrush, and fiddling with ChromaZone.
I do like the spirit of neocities, and recently did a page myself: gallery-mental.neocities.org just to collect the artwork of my family in a fun way. Stuff gets put in boxes and never looked at again otherwise.
I do agree though that the focus is a little bit too much on old school design. Instead of emulating what was it would be nice to see people innovate what could be. Web sites of today just looks the same somehow. The spirit of experimentation should make a come back to web design and that's only viable when there is no monetary concerns.
I used to spend more time on such things, even to the point of replacing Windows Explorer with Blackbox at least once. Nowadays I just scrounge some wallpapers off the web and put them on rotate.
Nice, thanks! Exactly what I was thinking - I have some old laptops that I was hoping to revitalize, and this seems like a good way to get some use out of them
I have an old NeXTStation from that era…the company Steve Jobs started when he left Apple. I need to get it connected to the network and see if I can get it to connect with something via Gopher.
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