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98.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIs

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Resurfaced independently across 3 calendar years, with breakout response in 3 of them.

submissions
4
submitters
4
observed span
2020–2024
peak thread · 207 comments
838 pts
latest 20+ return · 2024-11-06
471 pts

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2007–2026

One slot for every year since HN launched. Height is that year's peak points; orange marks a 100+ point or 50+ comment breakout. Select a bar to open its strongest thread.

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Hey man, if you're looking for the fonts I had them on a similar thing I done a while ago. Only normal size unfortunately https://github.com/padraigfl/packard-belle/tree/master/src/_... Cant remember where I sourced them from but it's probably in the code somewhere, the MSSansSerif ones are pixel perfect as far as I'm aware. It outputted CSS to be used independently but it was very much a secondary concern, pretty sure I'd be the only person who knows how to use it without backtracking…

Hey HN - author here. This was my burnout recovery project in April of 2020. Very much a labor of love and a surprising way to realize I still liked programming. I wrote some scattered thoughts here [0] I also "run" this project quite differently than I usually do - when I receive a pull request instead of merging it I do a quick glance through the user's github to make sure they're not a spammer before giving them _commit…

I made something similar as well (that includes both 3.11, 95, 2000, XP, CDE and Mac OS 9, and also all the default color schemes of those): https://nielssp.github.io/classic-stylesheets/?theme=win9x&s... My focus was not so much on pixel perfect, but instead on creating something that would also work and look aesthetically pleasing on modern systems, like with higher DPI monitors and such. So one of the the things I did was to recreate all the icons and symbols in SVG. I tried…

nielssp·471-point thread·

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Breakout years
3

100+ points or 50+ comments

Total points
1916

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Total comments
478

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Every submission

DateTitle as submittedByPointsComments
2020-04-2198.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIsFirst breakout · Best threadbennettfeely838207
2020-04-22Windows 98 CSS Fileblopeur10
2022-10-2398.css – design system for building faithful recreations of Windows 98 UIsmetadat606179
2024-11-0698.css – A design system for building faithful recreations of old UIsLatest 20+ point returnOuterVale47192