Fading icons

The icon has a datestamp of when created, or when attached to the application/data that it is representing. As time passes by, this icon should fade, lose color, lose a few pixels here and there (especially at the edge) and altogether show its age.

It would make for more respectable information, and also give you an indication of time. Of course there will be those frauds who intentionally wish to look old although they are not, but as to the fresh fruit, you are promised not to stumble on an old apple.

For example (in order to take this halfbidea a bit further) if you stare for too long at a halfbidea page, not interacting with the page, the background starts turning yellowish, the page starts crumbling, losing some menu items, some letters, and becoming less functional altogether. You would have to click the [-] three times before you could bone it.