In my head, the trails streaking across the screen were from a set of comets. Jaguar took the same Aqua-inspired theme but added some depth and motion to things.
The sweeping blue arcs and curves helped set the tone of the new Aqua interface. The first two releases of Mac OS X shared the same wallpaper. Visit our site to check out all our great audio utilities. If you need to do anything with audio on your Mac, Rogue Amoeba can help. We’ve been making high-quality native MacOS audio software since this was cutting edge, way back in 2002. Rogue Amoeba is proud to sponsor the 512 Pixels Wallpaper and Screenshot Library. If you are looking for Mac OS 9 wallpapers, this page is for you. If you want to see detailed screenshots of every release of OS X, click here.
While great in their day, the early wallpapers are now quite small in the world of 5K and 6K displays. As you can see, I have collected them all here. He seems quite happy to have created a quietly iconic image, that eventually became nearly invisible through ubiquity.Every major version of Mac OS X macOS has come with a new default wallpaper. When he sold the original photograph to Microsoft, he didn’t know what they were going to do with it.
He shot on film-Fuji, for the record, because he liked the way it made colours pop more-and says it was never Photoshopped. It’s a slight but charming little story O’Rear took the photo in 1996 in Sonoma, California, not far from his home. The short documentary above (made by a Microsoft team from the Netherlands) is a conversation with photographer Charles O’Rear, who in 1996 took the photograph “ Bliss,” which became the default desktop wallpaper of Windows XP, and as a result is one of the most-viewed photographs in history. (Despite Microsoft ending support for XP, it’s still in widespread use, from home computers to banking machines.)įor the millions of us who stared at Windows XP desktops for hours every day for work and school, there’s a certain nostalgia now for the old Windows user interface, before the flat design ethos of Windows 8 squashed everything into neat little boxes that are multicoloured without being that, well, colourful. Windows XP was officially retired on Tuesday, the end of the road for what was arguably Microsoft’s most successful version of its still-dominant operating system.
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