Looking back at wincustomize.com! :)

Stardock sure has come a loooong way, so have some of the skinners from back in the day.. of course.. a lot of them are gone too..  

Funny to see Russ ( Dangeruss ) complaining about 50 character image names back then.. the more things change, the more they stay the same, fought with a similar issue just days ago over 60 characcter names !    ( Maybe SKS can consider shorter image names?)

By the way Solid Nuts ,Coincidentally I just raised my rating on your latest Icon pack from an 8 to a 9 not 5 seconds before reading this thread



Good stuff, thanks for the links   

March 15, 2001 - DesktopX 0.75

Stardock has released DesktopX 0.75 for the general public. This is the first generally available new version of DesktopX since January. The new version is full of tons of new features!

Its at about 3.5 now. Long way indeed.

Gah! Is that the actual bg color for the site in those first two links? Things sure have changed.   

Now, that last link takes me back. All the way back to last year.   


First Zoomba takes us back to the early days of the net and now this. Whaddya tryin to do, make me feel old? I'm too young to feel old!!!!!

Im with sViz

http://web.archive.org/web/19991013185858/http://www.skinz.org/ 

Look back even further...1999 ....where we all came from....

  

LOL @ "Lord Frogboy"   

Doesn't make me feel old as I am old.  The good old days.  

Wow that was pretty cool. I only joined in 2005 so that was nice to see how it has changed over the years.   

Thanks Solid Nuts - I joined WC right around link number 2
I had forgotten how longgggggg it took that page to load

Thanks for the links guys...
Skinz.org really bring back lot of memory in skinning

i remember the wincustomize of the second link.., i came here for the first time as a visitor on those days.., then some time later i signed up...., just to be able to download more stuff   

Just joined last year, was cool to see how the site has developed

It's your UnBirthday! (or: roll-your-own skinnable software)
XX, the man myth & legend who created XXCalc at the request of the skinz.org community, has released the source code to XXCalc's skinning engine!

Ok, so he doesn't include the maths portion of it, & the liscence stipulates that you -not- use it for a skinnable calculator.. But skinnable file managers, ftp clients, Teletubby-death-threat-notepads, etc are all up in the air for the making.

Oh, one thing I forgot: you can only get the code if it's your unbirthday (the 364 days of the year which -aren't- your birthday). I had to hold off on posting the news till midnight (When birthday ended & unbirthday started ) ("Happy Birthday" wishes can be sent to here.)

XX's BetaZone
UnBirthday Software Liscence
The Code
October 05 1999, 09:58pm -_Shoggot_

Oh that was THAT long ago...

http://web.archive.org/web/19990903223758/rolf.customize.org/
Omg my old site... It's been so long. I don't even remember where my first betazone url was, or I'd have tried to find it again.