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Title: CA-12 in Sonoma County the scene of Windows XP hill wallpaper
Post by: bing101 on January 02, 2022, 12:08:56 PM

https://www.sfgate.com/travel/article/Windows-XP-Bliss-Hill-Sonoma-Charles-O-Rear-15976588.php
This is an interesting history of Microsoft and it's off a road I visited before but never knew the Windows XP Hill was there.

Title: Re: CA-12 in Sonoma County the scene of Windows XP hill wallpaper
Post by: Techknow on January 02, 2022, 06:12:37 PM
Yes I have wondered this as well. There's a video where someone commented that the photographer shot the photo for the wallpaper at a perfect time.

Without spoiling, here is the comment in the video: LINK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NqxYMwmIyM&lc=UgwpnsU3dvaHJwKPUjN4AaABAg)

The good news is that the author of the above video recreated the wallpaper by visiting the Palouse region in eastern Washington. I love to visit there one day!
Title: Re: CA-12 in Sonoma County the scene of Windows XP hill wallpaper
Post by: bing101 on January 02, 2022, 08:21:10 PM
Quote from: Techknow on January 02, 2022, 06:12:37 PM
Yes I have wondered this as well. There's a video where someone commented that the photographer shot the photo for the wallpaper at a perfect time.

Without spoiling, here is the comment in the video: LINK (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NqxYMwmIyM&lc=UgwpnsU3dvaHJwKPUjN4AaABAg)

The good news is that the author of the above video recreated the wallpaper by visiting the Palouse region in eastern Washington. I love to visit there one day!


I would have picked rural Ireland or rural New Zealand as a guess for the Windows XP Hill never Sonoma County, CA given that there are vines in the area. I been through the area before but never seen it as a green grass.