{"id":24165,"date":"2024-10-14T23:46:52","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T23:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=24165"},"modified":"2025-02-11T00:34:44","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T00:34:44","slug":"the-story-behind-the-worlds-most-famous-desktop-wallpaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/?p=24165","title":{"rendered":"The story behind the world\u2019s>>>>>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The story behind the world\u2019s most famous desktop wallpaper.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\" id=\"attachment_5712\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/onlystars.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/112ssss.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5712\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Windows XP Background, Bliss. Image by Charles O\u2019Rear. Used with permission from Microsoft.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Microsoft has faced a lot of criticism for its classic Windows XP desktop background, which has graced more than a billion computer screens since the system\u2019s launch in 2001. phylloxera, a bacterial disease that killed grapes . When the plague hit in 1999, about 50,000 hectares of farmland were destroyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although the cost to the developers was astronomical\u2014a total of half a billion dollars\u2014the state of Northern California was not in good shape. The endless rows of vines have turned into a carpet of lush grass and wildflowers here and there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Sonoma County view was taken from Charles O\u2019Rier\u2019s car window in 1998 while driving on Route 121. Although a professional photographer, his work was shown to National Geographic and the Los Angeles Times, O\u2019. The back up wasn\u2019t on the phone that Friday evening. Instead, he visited his girlfriend (now wife) near San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But he kept looking at the local hills. It was January, he recalls, and after the winter rains, \u201cthe grass was green and I knew the chances of finding these beautiful cliffs were pretty good.\u201d \u201cI\u2019ll be ready. I\u2019ll be alert.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he saw \u201cMy God!\u201d It\u2019s green! \u201cThe sun is out, it\u2019s cloudy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The story behind the world\u2019s most famous desktop wallpaper. Microsoft has faced a lot of criticism for its classic Windows XP desktop background, which has graced more&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24165"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44957,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24165\/revisions\/44957"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/24180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pulsperry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}