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Let me know what you think.",{"problem":50,"audience":56,"pricing":56,"motivation":57,"time_to_build":56,"stack":61,"openness":62,"stage":63,"team_size":64},{"value":51,"source":52,"evidence":53},"Collects iconic solid default desktop background colors from classic operating systems in one place","maker",[54],{"id":55},"post",null,{"value":58,"source":52,"evidence":59},"Built as a place to collect iconic solid background colors during a vacation",[60],{"id":55},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":66,"objections":99,"requests":129,"questions":165,"alternatives":170},[67,87],{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"Nostalgic and fun to browse; brings back memories of classic OS desktops","commenter",[71,75,79,83],{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"49334925","ocdjeremy","It's often said that scent is tightly associated with memory, but simply looking at these colors sends me on multiple trips down memory lane. I second the post from imfemambocus…",{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"49336054","RattlesnakeJake","I can't even describe how many spots this hit for me.",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"49329508","_joel","It's strange how seeing the default NT4 and 2k colours take me straight back to a fresh install 25+ years ago. First job was doing desktop rollouts so I'd see it a lot!",{"id":84,"by":85,"text":86},"49329180","vivid242","I sometimes catch myself recreating the Win95 color on my Mac. Thanks for this!",{"value":88,"source":69,"evidence":89},"Good coverage of obscure systems and color sources",[90,93,96],{"id":91,"by":11,"text":92},"49329176","Me too! The Workbench Blue is actually my current desktop background :)",{"id":94,"by":11,"text":95},"49450534","I just added the C64, based on pepto's colodore palette: https:\u002F\u002Fdesktopcolors.com\u002Fos\u002Fcommodore-64.",{"id":97,"by":11,"text":98},"49338389","Added, along with all other styles featuring solid color backgrounds :) https:\u002F\u002Fdesktopcolors.com\u002Fos\u002Fblackbox",[100,118],{"value":101,"source":69,"evidence":102},"LLM-generated descriptions are generic and sometimes wrong, and were removed or being replaced",[103,107,111,115],{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"49329311","flowercalled","I can understand using an llm to build your website. But I can't understand using it to write copy, especially when it's so unnecessary here.",{"id":108,"by":109,"text":110},"49333340","VCFundedGenYer","The descriptions under the colors are very obviously LLM generated and make little sense. No human would make statements like what is written under each entry. Contains many…",{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"49329848","cimi_","I like the website, great work! The LLM descriptions are terrible though :) here's the one for Windows 98: > Windows 98 refined the 95 formula, folding the web into the shell…",{"id":116,"by":11,"text":117},"49337735","You're right. This also came up in other comments. I just removed pretty much all AI placeholder texts or descriptors or replaced them with \"hand-written\" content, where I found…",{"value":119,"source":69,"evidence":120},"Color sources are unclear; screenshot-sampled values may drift from true palette values",[121,125],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"49329686","imfemambocus","The one thing I would add to each swatch is where the number came from. A value read out of a palette table and a value sampled from a screenshot are not the same number, and the…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"49329282","danirod","One nerdy detail about old operating systems and graphics cards: due to the way the VGA color palette works, the teal background used in Windows 98 and earlier versions of…",[130,135,158],{"value":131,"source":69,"evidence":132},"Cite the source of each color (documented palette vs sampled from VM)",[133,134],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},{"value":136,"source":69,"evidence":137},"Add more systems such as Plan 9, 8-bit computers, Atari, CDE, OpenWindows",[138,142,146,150,154],{"id":139,"by":140,"text":141},"49329379","newsomix9xl","Where's plan9?",{"id":143,"by":144,"text":145},"49337811","timbit42","Where are the 8-bit systems? Not all of them were black.",{"id":147,"by":148,"text":149},"49330542","drybjed","First I looked for was Atari 1040 STE TOS green background, and it's not there. Bummer.",{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"49339610","kjellsbells","love it. Would love to see the grey\u002Forange\u002Fblue\u002Fdark pink of CDE from the late 90s. But I'd especially love the gray on mottled gray of 1995 vintage Sun OpenWindows!",{"id":155,"by":156,"text":157},"49329410","zebproj","There's no \"Hot Dog Stand\", so the collection is incomplete.",{"value":159,"source":69,"evidence":160},"Show OS name on hover over known-uses dots",[161],{"id":162,"by":163,"text":164},"49346391","pfeher","Nice one, travelled back in time a bit. One thing that was unexpected for me is when you hover on the circles in the Known Uses section of a color, I expeceted that the given OS…",[166],{"value":167,"source":69,"evidence":168},"Where does the Windows 98 teal value come from given VGA 16-color palette differences",[169],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},[171,180],{"value":172,"source":52,"evidence":173},"Virtual OS Museum",[174,177],{"id":175,"by":11,"text":176},"49342231","Noted. Plan9\u002FRio was actually on my list for the initial release, but it is currently broken in the Virtual OS Museum (https:\u002F\u002Fvirtualosmuseum.org\u002F) and I couldn't find any other…",{"id":178,"by":11,"text":179},"49343420","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…",{"value":181,"source":69,"evidence":182},"stylespark.dev",[183],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"49385913","cunjieliu","something like： https:\u002F\u002Fstylespark.dev\u002F",{"comments":188,"answered":41,"key":189},17,[190,193,194],{"id":191,"text":192},"49330044","That's cool, thanks for sharing. I like the idea of adding XP as an anniversary gift ;)",{"id":175,"text":176},{"id":195,"text":196},"49329936","It's actually not so easy to pick a speaking name for each color, since many colors are used in different OSs. 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