Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002
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2007–2026One 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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HN comment orderI really liked these. This makes me feel old. I look at those desktops (particularly the Windows 95 one) and think they look clean and neat, with few distractions. I also know that they ran speedily on rubbish hardware. After ditching my BBC B (I was poor), I remember using Win 3.1 on a 386SX with 4MB RAM that someone had thrown out and installing software to take over program manager and make it look like Win95 because my machine…
There's a 2015 edition as well: https://anders.unix.se/2015/12/10/screenshots-from-developer...
I hope that rxvt-unicode has entered some people's lives since then, but that otherwise things still look the same. For me, 2002 was the GNOME wasteland between Windowmaker and Openbox. You could still right-click for a terminal, which made it tolerable. Once Openbox came of age it was like having AfterStep back, without the horrible font rendering.
Previous discussion thread from 2015 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10469824 Reddit discussion from 2015 - https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/3qlyf6/screenshots_f...
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 989
- Total comments
- 425
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015-10-28 | Screenshots from Developers and Unix people (2012) | trengrj | 13 | 1 |
| 2015-10-29 | Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002First breakout · Best thread | r3bl | 638 | 232 |
| 2019-06-10 | Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 (2015)Latest 20+ point return | beefhash | 324 | 189 |
| 2021-07-26 | Screenshots from developers and Unix people (2002) | thesephist | 3 | 0 |
| 2026-02-09 | Screenshots from developers and Unix people (2002) (2015)Hall induction | SerCe | 1 | 0 |
| 2026-04-09 | Screenshots from developers and Unix people taken in 2002 | chistev | 10 | 3 |