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Windows 3.1's ugliest color scheme wasn’t a joke after all

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Use Windows 3.1 Straight From Your Browser To Boot Up Pure Nostalgia

Let's go back in time to an era of personal computing, where dial-up internet was cutting-edge and desktop monitors were enormous. Specifically, let's jump to April 6, 1992, the day Microsoft released ...
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Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to get the ...

Every so often, a wonderful thing happens: someone young enough to have missed out on using computers in the early 1990s is introduced to the Windows 3.1 "Hot Dog Stand" color scheme. Back in the day ...
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Software on Disk, Microsoft Windows 3.1 Rolling Demo

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