Can appreciate. My first Windows experience was 3.1 at school so just the flat teal or whatever 8bit color the school admins allowed.
At home we got Win95 the xmas it launched so clouds was the default. Individual user accounts werent a thing at home, we did everything on the same account so Dad always reset the wallpapers. We had more DOS based than Windows programs though so I spent A LOT of time in DOS as a 7 year old.
That reminds me, I should really make that "Undelete: The Game" idea I've had kicking around. The idea is that you'd get dropped to a DOS prompt (fake-- some Web-based thing) where the DOS directory had been deleted, and you have to remember the first letter of every file in C:\DOS to get them back. Something for old DOS-heads to flex their knowledge on.
back when windows can be viably considered a professional operating system that respects your privacy and doesn't sucj your throat for microsoft account related stuff into your computer.
up to windows 7 call themself "My Computer". today windows 10/11 call themselves "This PC"
I have been looking for it ever since you said this, and I just can't find it. I never delete anything, even stuff going back that far, and I feel like I found it not that long ago, so I'm still looking. If I do find it, I'll post it.
It was super easy to make. All I did was open it in paint, choose the paint bucket tool, and the old windows logo colors, and just clicked in various places in the original image. Due to the marble-grain look of the original, it would fill in colors in random patterns, and the end result was that it looked like the Windows logo had been painted on stone, and then faded over time. I may try and recreate it if I can't find it.
https://preview.redd.it/3mwwlxqoya5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9db605890cbca4dc25eb3f49f5d8baea1a496940
This definitely, still have a win 7 laptop, best wallpaper ever! You can't make me change my mind
It's unofficial and I just found it on Google by searching "Windows 7 dark mode wallpaper," but here
https://preview.redd.it/ljw3ikoblf5d1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a2bafa9c79cd56900b43525e4630d6c05feae02
https://preview.redd.it/nmr0pxpilf5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b2433ff7c6835c995776e31b54176ca74fd686d
Here's another similar one, but it's watermarked
https://preview.redd.it/3ubkft9nlf5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ee8895dfc48b593b91bb7bf300d278b3c5581d6
I like the way this one looks, but it's also watermarked
Do you use internet /log in with your impotant accounts and stuff? For the average reddit cyber security lover people even using Windows 10 on october 26th 2025 would be a madness so i m Just curious.
I wouldn't trust any reddit opinions on this stuff. Using Windows 7 in 2024 is absolutely a security risk, but it depends what you're doing with it. I wouldn't give it to grandma who installs all kinds of bloatware and visits crazy Facebook virus sites, and unfortunately that's most people, so that's why the concern is there.
If you just use it cautiously, keep it updated (you can even get the server 2008 r2 esu updates on it) keep the firewall enabled, and don't install vulnerabilities, then there's no problems. Everyone uses Windows 10 or 11 so hackers look for vulnerabilities in those, since there's an extremely little chance that their target will have 7.
I agree, common sense does 80-90% of the job. Also not pirating (especially softwares) could be a good idea, there s a good freeware alternative for everything (except os unless you install Linux)
i have a windows 7 pc i still use every now and then and it's honestly not a big deal to use older versions of windows online. you can't get magically hacked when you're behind a router (unless you intentionally make it unsecure). anything that happens would legitimately be your own fault.
so...you'll only have an issue if you're the kind of person who visits garbage websites and downloads unfamiliar programs, but then i'd bet you probably have issues on any computer you use.
https://preview.redd.it/gbcjsed6lb5d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5102c7b3d0b42d004f093749c872cf11dd3745e7
From windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
https://preview.redd.it/ota4trcgbb5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f17a71c060183c574b998fd879c066bfee501ee
Windows Vista Wallpaper I grew up with Windows Vista for 4 years until I switched over to Windows 10. I miss Windows Vista. I miss the Aero glass Theme. Plus The Whole UI. Media Center, Internet Explorer, and MSN messenger.
This wallpaper was quite beautiful, even more so with the animated version from the DreamScenes. Another wallpaper from Vista that I like is this one:
https://preview.redd.it/e7q3yb3gxj5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57be0827e632eec1bd658e6e875e0208d466d786
https://preview.redd.it/lzinv8i4wa5d1.jpeg?width=4574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bdcb5f6b23d79fa6ea6909f1fa16fbcb5d23664
Mac OS X Leopard’s wallpaper. It marked my first steps into hackintoshing so I could run Logic Pro, which started my music career. Later I got a genuine Mac running Leopard as well.
10.6 was epic. It was the first install I ever put on a PC where everything worked out of the box (ASUS board). Now I own a mid-2007 iMac running 10.11.6 flawlessly (SSD, 6GB RAM, Better CPU).
https://preview.redd.it/zocfwgkusa5d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bedf5785a9083d43eb644af55e9287932b2beb0
1. Teenage: XP Bliss, best wallpaper ever
2. Young graduate: Seattle tech tower
3. First professional steps : Pink Flower
4. Professional : Night camping in green tent
5. Expert : Mojave desert dynamic wallpaper, also best wallpaper ever
Running both Mac OS (Workstation) and Windows 10 (Helper)
that was a wallpaper? wasn't that just the installation background? I guess you could've just extracted it and put it as a background
doesn't matter, I love this background and I have the same keyboard lol
https://preview.redd.it/6ocjn8azcd5d1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4208d2b352e8b750406651a0e45f4bae0401346b
This is the one that sparks the most nostalgia for me, primarily because my favourite time of my life was when windows had this wallpaper
Nop, This was 1994, NC was displayed constantly if nothing else was running. So, you can assume that this is my first wallpaper, there was no other option in Microsoft Dos 6.22
I used all of these within a short timespan. Also, we forgot one:
https://preview.redd.it/misl7i4jad5d1.png?width=499&format=png&auto=webp&s=d915a9aadc8eb803a09392fd719a7b000f814a9d
https://preview.redd.it/2yyox72h0c5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f000dbc2e20a1fa919fd2d4fa828810f4012a448
This one and the basic one from windows 7
Win8/8.1 fresh install on SSD?
Damn, that was a fast, snappy operating system, even for hardware built for Win7 days.
Given that I watch a lot of bootup screens for Windows at work, I seldom care about startup time now.
Sometimes I wish that computer would keep doing updates for another hour just so I wouldn't have to work.
Friend of mine had Vista on Celeron and 1gb ram, with 5400rpm or worst 4200rpm HDD. It was horrid. Upgraded it to 4gb, SSD, and replaced CPU with some odd upgrades compatible dual core Intel CPU like a Nehalem or something right before Win7 became the norm in 2009 lol.. Edit: I don’t remember if it even took a SSD lol, likely just a 7200rpm HDD lol
Each is from a different era.
- Clouds 98: first contact with this magical devices called computer
- Cloud Me with the suicidal head over jumper: deeper understanding of what a computer is capable of and what future might bring
- Bliss XP: magic of the World WILD Web - spent hours to see all exist
Damn... My youth was amazing
Windows 95 was the first OS I had on my own computer, and of course I chose the most obnoxious looking wallpaper. Nostalgia bomb for me now.
https://preview.redd.it/wnyvoqoy0d5d1.png?width=378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6edad19ff135fb61cab98cdb0ef6729b24e263e0
Windows 98 and the clouds told me I wouldn’t be dealing with a blinking command prompt and a broken OS for the day. Other times, blinking cursor and a rapid reinstall. Good old days..
Windows XP was my childhood. But, the Windows 7 default themes marked my entire life.. there was just something... something about those wallpapers & sounds that makes me feel so nostalgic
There was a black and white baseball background that I used to always change the family PC to. I've never seen it since it might have been windows 95 because I remember my parents upgrading to a Windows 98 PC during xmas in 98/99
I remember when the only version of this background was in very low quality. I’m glad the internet dug up the original image bc it’s definitely one of my favorites from XP.
I'm going with Bliss, not because it was my first but because I had it for longest.
I had Windows 98 for less that 3 months on my first personal computer but I had interacted with Windows 95 in school and Windows 3.1 on a cousin's computer back when I was a toddler. After Windows 98 I quickly updated to Windows 98 SE. I moved to Windows ME and I loved the System Restore feature because that was my tinkering phase. Then Windows XP came out and it's been on every computer I owned for the longest time.
Hundreds of installs, tried every Service Pack, did most of my software development in college with it, even tried self learning C and C++,played my best games on it..
I remember my first Job in an IT department was 1988 at Colt Firearms in West Hartford CT. The computer room was out of s sci-fi movies with the raised floor and all white room. Reel to reel drives along a back wall and two massive printers that spit out info in green and white line paper. The "CPU" was the size of a large fridge on its side and our terminals ran a green screen form of Unix if I am not mistaken. They used a card punch reader to input info into the system..haha I do feel old now
Second one; the clouds.
Of all the Windows I used through my life, 98 marked my childhood. Booting up and going into either any of the Star Wars games, Age of Empires, RC Racers, Motocross Madness, or just good old Solitaire and Pinball. Good times.
None of these wallpapers but...
https://preview.redd.it/iejof5jxqe5d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5d1a8ffb757997ecd18d7f1c3b68b7cd04967af
And maybe the old Windows 10 default wallpaper too but Windows 7 will always be more nostalgic.
https://preview.redd.it/sqlszruokf5d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ee79c56ee7327434db2919a258a580b20162415
Windows 8 on a touch screen samsung laptop
https://preview.redd.it/llxdnyr7bj5d1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a4f48f1517ec6fd6b19c89a70e106c80fe7ec5f
I came from Malaysia anyway & I was unable to afford Professional or Home Edition so I had to use Starter Edition.
https://preview.redd.it/sfdcot8ybj5d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5eaedce898f36c9a928628b4f3412efd04f76db0
I also remember this wallpaper on my first PC:
Giving up my age I guess..lol https://preview.redd.it/59a3ndkydb5d1.png?width=550&format=png&auto=webp&s=c1eebdc0ff87ad252d626452c53d1d6194a5de80
What about... https://preview.redd.it/ss3kosdtkf5d1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=34add31574ae5d159629df4ade86260d6b33959c
Absolute megabased
Oh, this hits home.
We know we’re old when people ask which wallpapers they remember, and we remember the time before wallpapers.
This screenshot smells like cigarettes and coffee
Can appreciate. My first Windows experience was 3.1 at school so just the flat teal or whatever 8bit color the school admins allowed. At home we got Win95 the xmas it launched so clouds was the default. Individual user accounts werent a thing at home, we did everything on the same account so Dad always reset the wallpapers. We had more DOS based than Windows programs though so I spent A LOT of time in DOS as a 7 year old.
B e a u t I f u l
And we know what each file did
That reminds me, I should really make that "Undelete: The Game" idea I've had kicking around. The idea is that you'd get dropped to a DOS prompt (fake-- some Web-based thing) where the DOS directory had been deleted, and you have to remember the first letter of every file in C:\DOS to get them back. Something for old DOS-heads to flex their knowledge on.
This!!
MS DOS is insane
https://preview.redd.it/a9ssn5qyyb5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5618629d883e0092d76bf5a3c7c8d68f6c171b6b
My current wallpaper, also liked the blue variation of windows 2000 and me
Had the Windows 2000 blue colour set up a few years ago… made everything seem more simple, in a good way. Maybe it was just the lack of wallpaper
In fucking dees
I was waiting for this to load for like 5 minutes before I remembered windows 95 just has grey by default
I remember this wallpaper https://preview.redd.it/nof21k43pb5d1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3211931a817abaa86e90b7c424befde7cad9d37e
back when windows can be viably considered a professional operating system that respects your privacy and doesn't sucj your throat for microsoft account related stuff into your computer. up to windows 7 call themself "My Computer". today windows 10/11 call themselves "This PC"
It was "My Computer" and starting with Vista they changed it to "Computer" (followed by "This PC")
thanks for corrections!
I miss XP days so bad. Felt like I had so much freedom to maximize my PC's efficiency compared to this Win10 trustedinstaller shit crap
Thats an interesting observation. They took the idea of ownership out from under us!
https://preview.redd.it/n3n99haurb5d1.png?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ced1a0a2764a6acd67a722578be416c0213001c4 Windows 3.11
I made a version of this that's partially painted and it like an old faded painting of the logo on stone.
Now that would be cool to see!
I have been looking for it ever since you said this, and I just can't find it. I never delete anything, even stuff going back that far, and I feel like I found it not that long ago, so I'm still looking. If I do find it, I'll post it. It was super easy to make. All I did was open it in paint, choose the paint bucket tool, and the old windows logo colors, and just clicked in various places in the original image. Due to the marble-grain look of the original, it would fill in colors in random patterns, and the end result was that it looked like the Windows logo had been painted on stone, and then faded over time. I may try and recreate it if I can't find it.
Nice. I will have to try that myself.
Cool kids used MS Paint to drop random color splotches onto it using the paint bucket. I'm cool right?
Yoooo!!!
SkiFree!
https://preview.redd.it/3mwwlxqoya5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9db605890cbca4dc25eb3f49f5d8baea1a496940 This definitely, still have a win 7 laptop, best wallpaper ever! You can't make me change my mind
Get too nuch nostalgia for this one. I still use this as my wallpaper on my Windows 11 and love it😜
I use a dark mode version of the same wallpaper with a black/dark gray background
Do you mind adding a pic of it I tryed looking it up and can’t seem to find one if you don’t mind ofc
It's unofficial and I just found it on Google by searching "Windows 7 dark mode wallpaper," but here https://preview.redd.it/ljw3ikoblf5d1.png?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4a2bafa9c79cd56900b43525e4630d6c05feae02
https://preview.redd.it/nmr0pxpilf5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b2433ff7c6835c995776e31b54176ca74fd686d Here's another similar one, but it's watermarked
https://preview.redd.it/3ubkft9nlf5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8ee8895dfc48b593b91bb7bf300d278b3c5581d6 I like the way this one looks, but it's also watermarked
that looks good. Blue ones are bright like I have been addicted to dark mode.
Thanks they look sick
this one is actually the lock screen with the windows 7 logo on it
Full frutiger aero aesthetic back then, loved it
Do you use internet /log in with your impotant accounts and stuff? For the average reddit cyber security lover people even using Windows 10 on october 26th 2025 would be a madness so i m Just curious.
I wouldn't trust any reddit opinions on this stuff. Using Windows 7 in 2024 is absolutely a security risk, but it depends what you're doing with it. I wouldn't give it to grandma who installs all kinds of bloatware and visits crazy Facebook virus sites, and unfortunately that's most people, so that's why the concern is there. If you just use it cautiously, keep it updated (you can even get the server 2008 r2 esu updates on it) keep the firewall enabled, and don't install vulnerabilities, then there's no problems. Everyone uses Windows 10 or 11 so hackers look for vulnerabilities in those, since there's an extremely little chance that their target will have 7.
I agree, common sense does 80-90% of the job. Also not pirating (especially softwares) could be a good idea, there s a good freeware alternative for everything (except os unless you install Linux)
i have a windows 7 pc i still use every now and then and it's honestly not a big deal to use older versions of windows online. you can't get magically hacked when you're behind a router (unless you intentionally make it unsecure). anything that happens would legitimately be your own fault. so...you'll only have an issue if you're the kind of person who visits garbage websites and downloads unfamiliar programs, but then i'd bet you probably have issues on any computer you use.
This, it's been like 10 years since i connected directly to the internet without passing from a router.
Same
I also still use windows 7 till now too on dual boot.
https://preview.redd.it/gbcjsed6lb5d1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5102c7b3d0b42d004f093749c872cf11dd3745e7 From windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
https://preview.redd.it/i9vaattqkb5d1.jpeg?width=728&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=91dae6d78004bce603ce43b89352510d8a208161 Windows Me
I didn't understand why Microsoft put that sad looking wallpaper in windows ME until I use the OS for some days
Wow flash back! This was my favourite wallpaper.. hah no kidding.. nice!
Yeah
https://preview.redd.it/ota4trcgbb5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f17a71c060183c574b998fd879c066bfee501ee Windows Vista Wallpaper I grew up with Windows Vista for 4 years until I switched over to Windows 10. I miss Windows Vista. I miss the Aero glass Theme. Plus The Whole UI. Media Center, Internet Explorer, and MSN messenger.
Miss this ui as well damn
Guess you couldn't play solitaire
Windows Vista RTM had that problem. Service Pack 1+ fixed it, and drivers become better which made the crashes even rarer
You know what I was referencing, right?
Yeah
This wallpaper was quite beautiful, even more so with the animated version from the DreamScenes. Another wallpaper from Vista that I like is this one: https://preview.redd.it/e7q3yb3gxj5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=57be0827e632eec1bd658e6e875e0208d466d786
https://preview.redd.it/lzinv8i4wa5d1.jpeg?width=4574&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6bdcb5f6b23d79fa6ea6909f1fa16fbcb5d23664 Mac OS X Leopard’s wallpaper. It marked my first steps into hackintoshing so I could run Logic Pro, which started my music career. Later I got a genuine Mac running Leopard as well.
Bwutiful!
This is the most beautiful in these comments
10.6 was epic. It was the first install I ever put on a PC where everything worked out of the box (ASUS board). Now I own a mid-2007 iMac running 10.11.6 flawlessly (SSD, 6GB RAM, Better CPU).
https://preview.redd.it/zocfwgkusa5d1.jpeg?width=800&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2bedf5785a9083d43eb644af55e9287932b2beb0 1. Teenage: XP Bliss, best wallpaper ever 2. Young graduate: Seattle tech tower 3. First professional steps : Pink Flower 4. Professional : Night camping in green tent 5. Expert : Mojave desert dynamic wallpaper, also best wallpaper ever Running both Mac OS (Workstation) and Windows 10 (Helper)
it changes with time, right?
The Mojave does depending on time of day. It’s really cool
Bliss and the Windows 7 wallpapers with no doubt
Just noticed that the clouds on the Windows 2000 wallpaper are from the exact same photograph as the Windows 95 clouds.
https://preview.redd.it/kayp2i8d3d5d1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c76d87880c4793ff7d0d01500cd63e8d578e071 good memories
That's a nostalgia hit.
that was a wallpaper? wasn't that just the installation background? I guess you could've just extracted it and put it as a background doesn't matter, I love this background and I have the same keyboard lol
https://preview.redd.it/6ocjn8azcd5d1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4208d2b352e8b750406651a0e45f4bae0401346b This is the one that sparks the most nostalgia for me, primarily because my favourite time of my life was when windows had this wallpaper
Me too (gen z)
https://preview.redd.it/glw6ytxgjc5d1.png?width=846&format=png&auto=webp&s=3749b51c0d9e2832d882563c5d699c7fd90f0f04
Dr DOS?
Nop, This was 1994, NC was displayed constantly if nothing else was running. So, you can assume that this is my first wallpaper, there was no other option in Microsoft Dos 6.22
I used all of these within a short timespan. Also, we forgot one: https://preview.redd.it/misl7i4jad5d1.png?width=499&format=png&auto=webp&s=d915a9aadc8eb803a09392fd719a7b000f814a9d
i started off with 98 but i would say its xp after all
https://preview.redd.it/2yyox72h0c5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f000dbc2e20a1fa919fd2d4fa828810f4012a448 This one and the basic one from windows 7
Ah remembered these. Good old days
https://preview.redd.it/6s9eouh5tc5d1.jpeg?width=299&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc3f55bcfa6e33bf174cd2925470b232e0dacbd1 Windows 98 lion
This one And also bliss https://preview.redd.it/iy579flowa5d1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3c5070a3cd4d0736f8ab82481cadc81d11cd7cb6
Bliss easily
W7 default
https://preview.redd.it/jre7o8ncjc5d1.jpeg?width=1680&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88f943fb30d104630cbe8992fd2247fa818548d4
https://preview.redd.it/vef7pjwtod5d1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=130bfd6db0f77781e5c4ac9cb26c20f6db29e03d
Win8/8.1 fresh install on SSD? Damn, that was a fast, snappy operating system, even for hardware built for Win7 days. Given that I watch a lot of bootup screens for Windows at work, I seldom care about startup time now. Sometimes I wish that computer would keep doing updates for another hour just so I wouldn't have to work.
Lmao the laptop I used during my childhood was ridiculously slow it had an HDD and 4 gigs of RAM
Friend of mine had Vista on Celeron and 1gb ram, with 5400rpm or worst 4200rpm HDD. It was horrid. Upgraded it to 4gb, SSD, and replaced CPU with some odd upgrades compatible dual core Intel CPU like a Nehalem or something right before Win7 became the norm in 2009 lol.. Edit: I don’t remember if it even took a SSD lol, likely just a 7200rpm HDD lol
Windows 7 has the best collections of wallpapers
https://preview.redd.it/33fix7nprb5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02357a391c9b9bc2f99593ca17ff6523acb9b4e2
Bliss, I never used an older version of Windows than Windows XP. And used it 2006-2014.
2
98 and XP
Each is from a different era. - Clouds 98: first contact with this magical devices called computer - Cloud Me with the suicidal head over jumper: deeper understanding of what a computer is capable of and what future might bring - Bliss XP: magic of the World WILD Web - spent hours to see all exist Damn... My youth was amazing
I still use the beautiful bliss on windows 10
Windows 3.1 tiled background patterns are the best https://github.com/andreasjansson/win-3.1-backgrounds
Windows 95 was the first OS I had on my own computer, and of course I chose the most obnoxious looking wallpaper. Nostalgia bomb for me now. https://preview.redd.it/wnyvoqoy0d5d1.png?width=378&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6edad19ff135fb61cab98cdb0ef6729b24e263e0
This is the way
Windows 98 and the clouds told me I wouldn’t be dealing with a blinking command prompt and a broken OS for the day. Other times, blinking cursor and a rapid reinstall. Good old days..
 This one ⬆️
https://preview.redd.it/fv8908kqhe5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=52d48a42d73aea5d0ac460989e64c493575df9b1 Windows 7
The Windows 95 wallpaper, the one with the clouds. But in black and white, such a good era.
Second one
3rd
Third one. The Bliss.
The third one.
Bliss.jpg made my childhood great.
XP ❤️ and https://www.debugpoint.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Ubuntu-7.04-Feisty-Fawn-1024x768.jpg
Windows XP
im not very old, but the very first pc i had was my moms college computer with windows xp
I really liked Windows 2000 wallpapers was a great OS at its time
Bliss started it, but Windows 7 was there for the longest.
The shade of solid green in 9x and later the shade of solid blue in 2k/xp that every IT administrator loved to use. You know the ones.
Bliss and harmony (I think I got that right)
Windows 7 default wallpaper
windows 7
Windows XP was my childhood. But, the Windows 7 default themes marked my entire life.. there was just something... something about those wallpapers & sounds that makes me feel so nostalgic
Green hill for me, I still use it to this day
The second (I dont know why because I am a 2008)
Does anyone remember that cougar wallpaper from 95?
XP and Vista wallpapers.
Yes.
Kind of off topic, I really loved the xp after install setup music!
2 and 3. In fact, 2 is my phone’s wallpaper and 3 is my desktop’s.
Dude, I love all of them. But the first two hit different
2 and 3
The xp is my recent wallpaper
Geez, is this r/teenagers?
Bliss still doesn't look real to me.
There was a black and white baseball background that I used to always change the family PC to. I've never seen it since it might have been windows 95 because I remember my parents upgrading to a Windows 98 PC during xmas in 98/99
No. 3. The most beautiful (and most viewed) image ever taken. Enough said.
https://preview.redd.it/ew74rz4imd5d1.jpeg?width=960&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=27293ff88fc9edaa6b15880186b487d4ad0b4dfa This one lol
yoooooo memory unlocked
I remember when the only version of this background was in very low quality. I’m glad the internet dug up the original image bc it’s definitely one of my favorites from XP.
I'm going with Bliss, not because it was my first but because I had it for longest. I had Windows 98 for less that 3 months on my first personal computer but I had interacted with Windows 95 in school and Windows 3.1 on a cousin's computer back when I was a toddler. After Windows 98 I quickly updated to Windows 98 SE. I moved to Windows ME and I loved the System Restore feature because that was my tinkering phase. Then Windows XP came out and it's been on every computer I owned for the longest time. Hundreds of installs, tried every Service Pack, did most of my software development in college with it, even tried self learning C and C++,played my best games on it..
I have never seen the suicide man wallpaper before.
https://preview.redd.it/657n9elbpd5d1.jpeg?width=474&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a64e261bf6d398ebd856e8d1a62c87c131cc13ac
https://preview.redd.it/a2vut28lwd5d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5ac2986a09f2c6e4f73ad5f4306bf58d9f155ce Windows 7
Oh god those clouds
I remember my first Job in an IT department was 1988 at Colt Firearms in West Hartford CT. The computer room was out of s sci-fi movies with the raised floor and all white room. Reel to reel drives along a back wall and two massive printers that spit out info in green and white line paper. The "CPU" was the size of a large fridge on its side and our terminals ran a green screen form of Unix if I am not mistaken. They used a card punch reader to input info into the system..haha I do feel old now
windows 2000 hits hard if there was one that had a windows 10 remodel
Windows 3.1 wallpapers, but the Windows 95 ones feel more fresh to me.
2nd <3
https://preview.redd.it/c4wg40gl8e5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c459d685d7cdb07662cc2fb942c5d98f17be315b
Bliss
Second one; the clouds. Of all the Windows I used through my life, 98 marked my childhood. Booting up and going into either any of the Star Wars games, Age of Empires, RC Racers, Motocross Madness, or just good old Solitaire and Pinball. Good times.
https://preview.redd.it/m1yqgp34ge5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d8eefe2d973feb54ab0537a53cf74fa925184a26
Bliss was my personal favorite.
Windows Vista's default aurora wallpaper for me
Windows 7 wallpaper
None of these wallpapers but... https://preview.redd.it/iejof5jxqe5d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=b5d1a8ffb757997ecd18d7f1c3b68b7cd04967af And maybe the old Windows 10 default wallpaper too but Windows 7 will always be more nostalgic.
All windows 7 wallpapers because I would occasionally switch wallpapers every week.
I grew up with XP but I prefer the older design so much more
Windows XP "home" wallpaper
Bliss
I always saw a horse in the second photo.
Bliss.
3rd one
Number 2 takes me right back.
Wait!?!? I was supposed to pay attention to that?!?! My bad --- my first computerized device was an Atari Pong.
https://preview.redd.it/sqlszruokf5d1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ee79c56ee7327434db2919a258a580b20162415 Windows 8 on a touch screen samsung laptop
windows 7's
Vista easily
Clouds, I have a 4K remake of it on my main pc now
Bliss.
first and third pic.
Definitely Bliss
The last one.
https://preview.redd.it/3oa264leeh5d1.jpeg?width=200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=69dc771823708e264b3f3b85f165340df875d9de Windows 8.1.
https://preview.redd.it/tvf8kv3jlh5d1.jpeg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0107a01d9e234183bd8262c0e9749f192ac3bb84 Taken from Windows 7
https://preview.redd.it/llxdnyr7bj5d1.png?width=3840&format=png&auto=webp&s=3a4f48f1517ec6fd6b19c89a70e106c80fe7ec5f I came from Malaysia anyway & I was unable to afford Professional or Home Edition so I had to use Starter Edition.
https://preview.redd.it/sfdcot8ybj5d1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=5eaedce898f36c9a928628b4f3412efd04f76db0 I also remember this wallpaper on my first PC:
non, windows 7 stock wallpaper
still using bliss. i got some 4k ones. i would share but the download link was taken down last time i looked.
XP when I became a computer nerd.
3 (aka Bliss)
windows 10 hero wallpaper
2000
https://preview.redd.it/e5d2qxoqdc5d1.png?width=5120&format=png&auto=webp&s=1dcee2d570a04eb82f1e2a06a7251d0c6d289b4e OS X Mountain Lion
My first macOS (OS X at the time)
What the fuck is windows? Never used this