Windows 3.1 included a red and yellow 'Hot Dog Stand' color scheme so garish it was long assumed to be a joke, so I tracked down Microsoft's original UI designer to ge…

"The truly funny thing about this color scheme is that all the other Windows 3.1 color schemes are surprisingly rational, ...

Use Windows 3.1 straight from your browser to boot up pure nostalgia

Remember Windows 3.1? If there's a thrill when you think about it, you can relive the whole environment at one masterful ...

Windows 3.1's ugliest color scheme wasn’t a joke after all

Windows 3.1's Hot Dog Stand color scheme wasn't a joke, but "a garish choice, in case somebody out there liked ugly bright ...

Inside the Windows 1.0 reunion: How a scrappy team shipped the product that changed everything, eventually

A core group of early Microsoft developers and business leaders reunited this week, 40 years after releasing Windows 1.0, ...

Why is my USB port orange? I learned what every color really means, and it's wild

Teal: Just like blue, but denoted as USB 3.1, supporting faster transfer speeds of up to 10 Gbps. Red: These are the newest and fastest devices available, categorized as USB 3.1 Generation 2 and USB 3 ...