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  2. Bliss (photograph) - Wikipedia

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    Bliss, originally titled Bucolic Green Hills, is the default wallpaper of Microsoft's Windows XP operating system. It is a photograph of a green rolling hills and daytime sky with cirrus clouds . Charles O'Rear , a former National Geographic photographer, took the photo in January 1998 near the Napa – Sonoma county line, California, after a ...

  3. Windows XP visual styles - Wikipedia

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    Windows Classic is a visual style that is built-in to the operating system, utilizing the classic Windows look-and-feel that was used in previous versions of Windows prior to Windows XP. Officially titled "Windows Classic style", it is less CPU-intensive and offers better performance [ 11 ] (which is also the reason why it is used by default on ...

  4. Grayscale - Wikipedia

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    In digital photography, computer-generated imagery, and colorimetry, a greyscale (more common in Commonwealth English) or grayscale (more common in American English) image is one in which the value of each pixel is a single sample representing only an amount of light; that is, it carries only intensity information.

  5. Matrix digital rain - Wikipedia

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    An interpretation of digital rain. Matrix digital rain, or Matrix code, is the computer code featured in the Ghost in the Shell series and the Matrix series.The falling green code is a way of representing the activity of the simulated reality environment of the Matrix on screen by kinetic typography.

  6. Dell XPS - Wikipedia

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    Inspiron XPS – The very first XPS laptop was a very heavy desktop-replacement laptop starting at 9.06 pounds without a power supply (which added 2.5 pounds). This was because it was offered with either a 3.4 GHz desktop Pentium 4 HT "Prescott" processor, or the "Gallatin" Pentium 4 Extreme Edition processor at the same clock speed, which gave ...

  7. Wallpaper group - Wikipedia

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    A wallpaper group (or plane symmetry group or plane crystallographic group) is a mathematical classification of a two-dimensional repetitive pattern, based on the symmetries in the pattern. Such patterns occur frequently in architecture and decorative art , especially in textiles , tiles , and wallpaper .

  8. Windows 98 - Wikipedia

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    On December 15, 1997, Microsoft released Windows 98 Beta 3. It was the first build to be able to upgrade from Windows 3.1x, and introduced new startup and shutdown sounds. [10] Near its completion, Windows 98 Release Candidate was released on April 3, 1998, [11] which expired on December 31 of the same year

  9. Easter egg (media) - Wikipedia

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    Easter eggs in video games take a variety of forms, from purely ornamental screens to aesthetic enhancements that change some element of the game during play. The Easter egg included in the original Age of Empires (1997) is an example of the latter; catapult projectiles are changed from stones to cows.