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	Flat progress

	I was recently sent a link to a controversy where a group of people
	that flat design was progressive. They accused their opponents of
	retrograde and old habits. They say, this is another breakthrough
	the entire industry as a whole. Namely, a simple and unobtrusive de
	It is important and necessary to comment on such nonsense. Because
	believe that the world simply did not exist before they were born.
	point is not even this, but the fact that the flat interface actual
	every right to be called retrograde and even oldschool. In modern t
	It is a pity, but the consumer is unlikely to know about it. Since
	unlikely to master this Phlog. Otherwise, the consumer would know t
	design is the day before yesterday in computer technology. This con
	first implemented by Xerox back in 1973. On a Xerox Alto machine. A
	consisted of those very buttons and menus that today excite lovers
	"progress" so much, but in fact, following their logic of regressio
	against the background of Windows 3x and even the first X, modern d
	really looks retrograde.

	Xerox 1973 vs Android 2019 [82 kb]

	But maybe Xerox is some one-off episode of flat design? Maybe after
	until the very latest Android versions, nothing like this ever exis
	again by! The 1985 Gem Desktop fits well with the progressive "plan

	Gem Desk 1985 buttons vs Somekind store 2019 buttons [40 kb]

	" But this is probably just the second exception to the rule? And u
	2020s, there were no analogues of modern "progressive" buttons? And
	Amiga OS 1985, and the first versions of Windows look about the sam

	Desk view 1 1985 vs Windows 10 [92 kb]

	Desk mate 1984/Desk view 1992 vs Windows 8 [187 kb]

	Not to mention Mac OS and a number of other systems. So what happen
	Is flat design of operating systems not progressive, but of the yes
	It's true! Following the logic of consumption and marketing progre
	After all, modern IT cannot offer anything new.
	So look forward to the return of the "newest" convex interface as p
	perfection in the near future! Well, or at least used in the early
	But who will remember this?
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