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by eyelidlessness 2035 days ago
Wait wat? I’m not disputing this but I came up on MacOS (it wasn’t even named that at the time, I believe I got started on System 6) and I never saw notifications like that.
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Around Mac OS 9, they changed some types of errors from modal dialogs to floating palettes in the corner of the screen.
I’ve never seen these before. Sounds interesting but not the inspiration for Growl by any means. :)