Having DOS as my first operating system definitely influenced my aesthetic love of the Linux command line and ncurses.
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I played 5" floppy games on an IBM 5150 to start, then a newer IBM with a 3" floppy drive.
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My first GUI was Windows 3.1, then Windows 95.
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But since I had no internet access, I explored my operating system for fun. So, DOS and the BIOS.
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Figuring out how to change the colors of my BIOS menus made me feel so cool. And yes I went for a dark neon theme.
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So now, old school CI themes and ncurses menus give me that same "hacking into my OS in my bedroom at night" feel.
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I like chunky keyboards, monospaced prompts, CRTs.
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And I hate scifi movies where everything looks like the interior of an Apple Store.
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I'm not a Windows user anymore, but I would definitely mess around with DOS again if it happened by.
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That white- or yellow-on-dark-blue aesthetic will be tied in my mind to text modes forever.
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