Hi Hunters!
My name is Andrey and this is a fantasy about how App Store would look like if it was launched in the far eighties.
Data on apps and their ratings are taken from AppStorio.
Bootstrap theme BOOTSTRA.386 is a design basis.
Woot! Maybe I'm old but I love seeing these retro design projects come back around like this.
It's also become mainstream trendy, the Sacramento Kings announced all the home games would be in retro colors and uniforms for instance...
A personal bias but would rather have seen it in Mac OS 6 or 7 :D
Nice job!
@duanewilsonsf I also was considering the idea to base the interface on first MacOS versions. But as for me, even they looked more modern than the magic of black and blue screens of Ms DOS & Unix OS.
Hello @tkachenko! I love the idea! I've been quite into tech oldies these days, and I find your idea brilliant :) I've done some digging on the Wayback machine for one and a half month now to start a twitter account called the Web Archaeologist is you wanna check it out (@wwwarchaeology). I'd love to have a way to easily find archives of app screens as well but it's not as easy! Anyway, great job! I'll make sure to tweet about it on my account! :)
@yoann_lopez@wwwarchaeology
Thx!
It is really not so easy to store the entire history of screenshots from the appstore.
Total size of all screenshorts - 30Kb (average smallest screenshot size) * 2 (average screenshort numbers) * 1 800 000 (apps count)
it’s around 126Gb!
And this is just small screenshot size at one time (no all apps versions).
But Apple App Store as i know save all screenshot and icons for all apps version and its avalible from Apple CDN
for example two icons for flashlight app (09/2015 and now days) available now
This is really fun. I don't know if this is just an art project or something that you're hoping to make some money off of(doesn't seem like it). It would be cool to see the source on GitHub so enterprising developers could send a few PRs ;-)
@anthonybullard
Yes, retro.appstor.io - its just for fun project
According publishing the source on GitHub, it’s impracticable because retro.appstor.io is just a part of our main project AppStor.io, whose aim is to help you to create beautiful and functional websites for iPhone applications.
And we have many dependencies at backend part.
But may be at featue we use rest api for this, and ofcouse publish this project at github
@pointum agreed and i noticed the site uses font smoothing. essential to get the font display as big as it is (originally designed for 15px size) but not really authentic. Otherwise good work!
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