Skins from March, 2001

An oldie, but a goodie...

Published on March 13, 2008 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

With WinCustomize turning 7 today, I thought it would be interesting to browse through the gallery archives to see what sort of skins people were uploading back in March of 2001, with the launch of the brand new site.

When WC launched, there were only a small handful of galleries: WindowBlinds, IconPackager, DesktopX Objects, ObjectBar, PocketBlinds, LiteStep, WinStep, Wallpapers, Windows Media Player, Winamp, WebBlinds, ICQ Plus v3. A dozen galleries to our current 50. A few hundred skins then, to over 75,000 today.

Here are a few of the skins from March 2001 in the first few galleries launched. Enjoy!


Adrenaline (WindowBlinds) Endosage	Tech13 (WindowBlinds) treetog	X-Men (WindowBlinds) Alexander Drenker	Formula One (WindowBlinds) Communityskin

Thredz (IconPackager) Dangeruss	x_simon (IconPackager) x_simon	KDE 2 (IconPackager) Roberto Alfredo Burgos Lara	Razorart (IconPackager) treetog

Ganymede Analog Clock (DX Obj) dethnite	Office 2K Zoomers (DX Obj) Zeratore	Fireworks Launcher (DX Obj) Zeratore	Sorbet Blue II Buttonpack (DX Obj) c242

TikiTheme (PocketBlinds) Fredrik Glawe	MicroXP (PocketBlinds) Jimmy Obomsawin	MicroIsland (PocketBlinds) Jimmy Obomsawin	MicroMSN (PocketBlinds) Jimmy Obomsawin

Comments

BoXXi

on Mar 13, 2008

Cool stuff.... everything was new and exciting back then! I made one of my first DX themes in 2001, and seven years later it STILL has no comments..... hehe.

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ZubaZ

on Mar 13, 2008

Very cool, innovative designs back then and with some rudimentary tools (by today's standards).

c242

on Mar 13, 2008

Oh man... Not knowing much about Photoshop or the possibilities of 'layers' in graphics programs I made all those buttons with DesktopX itself and the Corel screenshot program because it was the fastest way for me to do such a thing back then. I had a special Wallpaper containing magic pink areas for different purposes. Go figure...

freezejeans

on Mar 13, 2008

Wow! What a great flashback. I began using WindowBlinds at version 3 and to see the progression of skin technology and quality has been a great ride. Used Dangeruss' Thredz icons for a LONG time and still think they rock even today

HAPTORK

on Mar 13, 2008

Fireworks launcher's preview is an animated image. Is there anyway to submit a animated preview for a skin?

Zoomba

on Mar 13, 2008

No, we put an end to animated previews a long time ago

I.R. Brainiac

on Mar 13, 2008

You've come a long way babeeeeeee.

rikkie

on Mar 13, 2008

Some of those early skins should really be updated to today's standard . I still think- considering the tools available at the time - those early skins were really innovative.

ZubaZ

on Mar 13, 2008

I still think- considering the tools available at the time - those early skins were really innovative.

Good art and innovation isn't about the tools . . it's about the artist.

It would be nice to see them updated though.

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