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A.N.O.N.Y.M.I.A. · 7mo

what got you into OSM?

The imaginative urge to design OS user interfaces ever since I was 3-4 years old after I bought my first laptop (which had Vista Home Premium on it) I was immediately attached to the Aero user interface (I knew how to read back then so I was able to find my way through) and well, I remember having vivid dreams about a Vista-esque imaginative Vista operating system running on the same laptop for at least 9 years straight, during that time I made some GUI sketches on a tiny sketchbook that I had during the 3rd grade (which was when I also found out about pre-2000 Windows versions)

I always had that same urge within me for a decade, which grew more and more overtime, until finally in until May 2017 when I accidentally bumped into a video by Windows Supporter (a no-longer-existant YouTube channel), I realized one month later that there's a whole group of people working on Operating System Mockups (the term Windows Never Released was more prominent back then though) and well, I tried to see if this whole thing was for me at first, it took me less than a month to finally decide that I would start doing this actively on September of the same year.

I finally got into OSM on that time, however it took me 4 years to establish a firm groundwork of stuff to get into higher-end concepts, and well, now I'm here, almost 7 years after I first discovered OSM by accident.

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