[mdaniel]

> The classic Macintosh desktop is also very well done

Two things, in my opinion: trying to be whimsical and "fun" for such a grave topic is disrespectful, and I don't understand what value appropriating Apple's logo and the "finder face" in the corner add to the 9/11 retrospective experience

So, fine, maybe I'm just not happy-go-lucky enough to appreciate why this needs to be a classic Macintosh theme, but I am 100% positive that this experience doesn't need those branding elements to reenact 9/11 anythings

[gnicholas]

IMO this doesn’t seem disrespectful, more like an attempt at authenticity. For those who used computers at that time, it will remind them of what it was like, and for younger people, it helps communicate the era (before you were born, but post-GUI) that 9/11 happened in.

[nobody9999]

>IMO this doesn’t seem disrespectful, more like an attempt at authenticity. For those who used computers at that time, it will remind them of what it was like, and for younger people, it helps communicate the era (before you were born, but post-GUI) that 9/11 happened in.

I mostly agree with you. However, I visited Las Vegas and stayed at the New York, New York casino hotel a few months after the towers came down and noted the "memorials" people put up on the outside of the casino. Which, as a native NYer who worked across the street from the WTC (and walked through it pretty much every work day for many years beyond that) for more than three years, really pissed me off even though I realized that people wanted to show their support -- I found it a disgusting display.

I still live in NYC and to this day I avoid the area around ground zero whenever I can. Not because I'm afraid, but because it's still painful to think about all those dead people in a place that was so familiar to me.

As such, I understand GP's feelings. The events of that day shouldn't be made light of given all the innocent people (and not just in NYC, but in Washington, DC and Shanksville, PA as well) who died needlessly. And each of us processes/deals with that differently.

[keepamovin]

So you’re judging other people’s reactions to the event? I don’t think we should do that. It doesn’t make you right. People are going to have diverse ways of responding and processing it. We should be tolerant and accepting of that.

What we should not be tolerant of is people who judge other people first, and try and make them wrong. I think you can express your own feelings on this, without imposing on others like that.

It’s important to have clarity about how you feel, including what you feel about other people’s reactions, and accept it. When you observe yourself reacting to someone else’s response, rather than making it about them being wrong and judging them, focus on how you feel, and ask yourself why you feel that way.

[barrysteve]

He's judging the experience of a website.

What's it got to do with other people's reactions?

He's expressing an interpretation, not a feeling.

[Hammershaft]

It's useful to situate younger people in a historical context.