TECHNOLOGY

✍️ The Forgotten Haiku of BeOS

Or… Sometimes it is the smallest things, which go un-noticed, which are infrequently seen, that show the true care that goes into something

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BeOS was a Beautiful Operating System — not that this is where the name came from.

• BeOS had a clean and uncluttered interface
• It had minimal button use
• BeOS had window tabs instead of bars at the top of every window
• Its icons were cute and uncomplicated and it helped to popularise the isometric look and feel of icons

This is what operating systems looked like in 2000 — Windows Server, BeOS r5 Professional, and Apple macOS

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NetPositive

This was the default browser that shipped with BeOS r5 Professional addition — even the icon was reminiscent of the 2000s.

I am not sure whether anybody uses the term “Surf the net” anymore — but still, the icon reflected this phrase.