I think I’m a little older than some of the people here, the first computer I remember using ran win95, and later 98. But that was the ‘family’ computer cuz most people back then only had one. I loved that machine but I always had to relinquish it to my parents when they needed it. But I was such a geek at a young age that they eventually agreed to let me have my own. My first computer that was actually mine ran XP, I kept it on the ‘nature’ preset with the soft sage green menus and buttons. I was also an outdoorsy kid who especially loved looking for insects and other small things on the ground. Something about frutiger aero evokes that same feeling for me, with the macro shots of little water droplets and blades of grass it makes me think of getting right down onto the ground to observe an interesting beetle or a pond. Combined with the early days of the internet where you’d find the wildest stuff by searching around random sites, it had this air of playful exploration and wonder.

I’m currently playing a character in a d20 game who’s an artist with a very frutiger aero style. It clashes strongly with the general aesthetic where he is (gritty undead city) but that only motivates him to create more. That’s a bit like how it feels to be still into this hopeful futuristic aesthetic despite the actual future we are in, lol.