Virtualbox windows 3.110/7/2023 perhaps someone can backport a modern I disabled the default USB support and the startup to GUI is ~5s. Perhaps someone can backport a Gemini browser to Windows 3.11. Not sure if VirtualBox virtual network adapter can be recognized by Windows 3.11. ![]() I grew up with MS-DOS and 4M of RAM, perhaps I should make a tiny VM with Windows 3.11 and Netscape to revisit these days and try to get my Jekyll blog running on it (served from CERN httpd or the popular webserver at the time). Netscape and Mosaic inverted this color scheme with a grey background and blue hyperlinked text. MS-DOS 5.0 (which predated the first Linux release a few months in 1991) had a nice grey text on blue background for EDIT.COM (or was it exe?) and QBASIC.EXE. I highly doubt the UI choices of Window 3 were relevant or closely watched by that team. What? No! These are grad students working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications in the 1990s on big powerful Unix workstations. My theory is that Windows 3.1 had just come out. I like to imagine that Cello and Mosaic were both inspired by the same trends happening in user interface design at the time. > What happened in 1993 to suddenly make hyperlinks blue? No one knows, but I have some theories. It makes me question the thoroughness of their research at all. That second screenshot is of Windows 2, (from December 1987) showing the "Help" system, which did use underlined hyperlinks, from 1989. It also did not have overlapping windows. Windows 1.0 in 1985 did not have hyperlinks. ![]() Tim Berners-Lee released it in December 1990, based on a proposal he developed in 1989. ![]() I'm a little surprised by some basic facts the article gets wrong.
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