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Enter "Lickable Pixels" -- the phrase that described the Aqua era.

Introducing Mac OS X's Aqua interface, Steve Jobs said at Macworld in January 2000: "We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)

Earlier era for me actually. I'm a 90s person. :)

Also more generally called skeuomorphism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph