Found in 1 comment on Hacker News
quink · 2020-04-18 · Original thread
I know precisely the kind of style you mean. I just googled <random technology> and 1997 and found this here cover pretty immediately: https://www.amazon.com/Cisco-IOS-Configuration-Fundamentals-...

Probably not what you had a hazy memory of but probably very close. I love this style too.

Edit: It's one of my favourite non-digital aesthetics in computing history, together with some of the stuff DEC did.

Edit 2: Another minor reason I'm somewhat familiar with that style is because MUMPS vendor InterSystems kept some variants of it around for longer than reasonable: https://www.slideserve.com/broderick/introduction-to-intersy... which I just adore.

And just for another search, Microsoft 1996 yields this here thumbnail: https://i.imgur.com/wlr0U6j.png for this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gMC_uFdcWE

Fresh book recommendations delivered straight to your inbox every Thursday.