A Tribute to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" Color Scheme (2005)
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The true story of the Windows 3.1 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46247605
Palm OS (5, I think?) had a few unhinged ones as well.
I sometimes miss the time when UIs didn’t take themselves too seriously.
palmos4 had butterfly, which really let you generate some horrors
Not in Windows, but in my teens I happened across a very similar color scheme on my Commodore 64, and used it for quite a while.
Something about red text on a yellow background made pixel-level details on my television set seem much crisper. The default light-blue on dark blue, for instance, was much blurrier. I'm not sure if it was an illusion, or something actually grounded in the display technology of old CRTs.
Do you still remember hotbot's color scheme? I guess back in the days we all were brave and less boring.