Do you have any memories that spring to mind when you see old wallpapers?
The green rolling hills of XP remind me of when I started using computers, watching Insider Secrets on CNET and downloading everything that appeared on download.com, then trying to make Windows XP look like Vista
Vista’s of when I installed every possible custom theme imaginable and spent half the time rebooting from BSODs while trying to play Zombie Escape in CSS
Windows 7 of what felt like peak Windows and when I got my first gaming PC and the joys of Bootcamp (never forget the Windows 7 Beta fish wallpaper),
Mac OS Leopards wallpaper of my first Mac,
Ubuntu 9.04: The classic Ubuntu where I had no idea what I was doing and I had no idea how to get Wi-Fi and sound to work,
Ubuntu 10.04 of when I first started running Minecraft servers and using Linux, not to forget glorious GNOME 2,
Debian 6 of when I started learning Debian and the fun that was trying use PPAs and custom repos on Apt and running servers in VirtualBox,
Mac OS Mavericks: Nice network share, would be a shame if it stopped responding and you had to reboot… again,
Windows 8 (not 8.1)… I don’t actually remember these . I used a screenshot from DayZ looking down at Elektro back when I ran Windows 8 consumer preview and the release candidate.
YES! In 1991 when I was 10 we got our first family computer with Windows 3.1. I stayed up late helping my dad set it up. I’ll never forget seeing the desktop wallpaper for the first time. I’d never seen so many colors on a computer before!
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YES! In 1991 when I was 10 we got our first family computer with Windows 3.1. I stayed up late helping my dad set it up. I’ll never forget seeing the desktop wallpaper for the first time. I’d never seen so many colors on a computer before!