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by bamboleo 2035 days ago
Windows has had a minimal form of standard notifications since Windows XP, which appeared as speech bubbles coming from the bottom right corner.
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grishka 2035 days ago
I know, but these didn't really work for stuff like instant messaging, and only one could be displayed at a time system-wide, so everyone made their own thing.
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nonesuchluck 2035 days ago
Oh wow, I totally forgot about the XP speech bubbles! Did any useful application ever use them? I only remember obnoxious AV warnings and Windows messages ("you can click here to re-open me!") IM notifications may not have been bad.
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dylan604 2035 days ago
Don't forget about Clippy that predated XP by millennia (at least it feels that way).
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