Memories before Liquid Glass

When I was a young boy, I saw Windows XP for the first time and thought it looked really nice. My family had an old beige desktop computer with Windows 98, so I spent many months asking my parents to buy the new Windows XP OS. They acquiesced at some point, and my computer’s interface got a beautiful makeover. Unfortunately, the hardware could barely keep up, and the software upgrade slowed my computer down immensely. That didn’t stop me from trying to make my computer’s interface look better in the following years. Trying, because I often failed. I remember four significant moments: At a friend’s place, I saw their Windows Media Center OS with the Royale theme. I figured out how to set up to replace my Windows XP default Luna theme. That opened up my mind to how I could customize things further. I now know that the term, Frutiger Aero, describes both Luna and Royale aesthetic. In high school, I saw the icon animations on a friend’s Sony Ericsson w900, I tried doing the same thing on…