One convention we lost was that text fields have sunken white background and other areas of the UI are generally grey. UI now uses bright white in most places, eventually causing the world to invent dark mode.
It's really gone backward.
It's really gone backward.
Windows 9x/NT4.0 Explorer was the pinnacle of graphical user interfaces.
And if you actually set them to reasonable colors, certain applications do weird epileptic things (looking at you, Firefox!)