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       Post B4ARvorv8zCoDiXLw8 by beandreams@friendhole.social
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 (DIR) Post #B4ARvorv8zCoDiXLw8 by beandreams@friendhole.social
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       Can&#39;t decide whether i love or hate the long covid awareness colours. Real Windows 3.1 energy
       
 (DIR) Post #B4ARzFXkQOd7opjkZ6 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @beandreams hm, that cyan is more Chicago/early Win95 vibes for me
       
 (DIR) Post #B4AS6lgNKYQ7WXMDi4 by mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org
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       @beandreams but then, that’s similarly sucked out to how ME/CFS/LC people probably feel…
       
 (DIR) Post #B4AsMAJMdnQx3pb3dQ by domi@donotsta.re
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       @beandreams (win3.1 didn’t come with the teal background. that’s why the screenshot you found is so grotesque. see betawiki for details. AFAICT the first OS to come with the teal background was NT3.1 (1993), and first mainstream one was 95)
       
 (DIR) Post #B4BUyZwzYmJ5qEsOLQ by beandreams@friendhole.social
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       @domi My point is not that the teal was the default background, but mainly that these colours look like they were chosen from the old Windows 4-bit colour palette
       
 (DIR) Post #B4BUyaBAi3eKYDViRk by Lili@donotsta.re
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       @beandreams This is not a Windows palette, it’s the default EGA palette. Every single program released since October 1984 (which is before Windows was even released) could use them. You associate Windows NT 3.1, NT 3.5x, NT 4.0, 95, 98 with specifically the combination of teal and gray because Microsoft:didn’t change it (they know how to, Windows XP boot screen changes the default palette, but it covers the most cases)used gray for interface background since buttons were usually gray, still are in elevators for example. It was also the background colour in 3.1 as @domi ‘s thumbnail showschose the colour that makes most sense from dark ones or top row (black on black won’t work, red is error, green is success, yellow is just ugly, blue is already in blue screen, purple is a bit aggressive, gray is what they changed from)Thus, you get a desktop that’s just teal and gray and hundreds of millions of people have seen it. Windows 3.1 doesn’t use this teal anywhere. The closest thing is boot screen, which is #3fa0c7 as opposed to #0aa and it displays only for a few seconds. If you were to travel back in time to 1994 and ask a random computer user with a colour monitor what colours are in Windows 3.1, their answer would be black and white, red, green, yellow and blue because of the Windows logo, gray, maybe they’d remember pink by some miracle and that’s it. If they looked at a teal-gray ribbon like that, there’s no way in hell they’d say ‘oh, it’s a Windows ribbon!’ because it doesn’t make any sense. That association only started because people were using 95 and 98 especially.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4BUyaPLrKzZGC92Y4 by domi@donotsta.re
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       @Lili @beandreams now both of you are kinda ridiculous with the replies &lt;.&lt;