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thanks bro <3

the leaves one is really nice.

Last night I dreamed of flying toasters

What tickles me is that Andreas put these on GitHub 13 years ago.

That’s long enough in tech to be considered retro in and of itself… let alone the age of these tiled backgrounds!

Oh, man, does that bring back the memories!

Thanks for sharing. :-)

Gosh, my brain just got all fuzzy going through those one after the next. Transitioning from the previous era of CGA to 16 colors was so very exciting at the time.

we have a crt tv with built in vhs in our office and have a bunch of old tapes

one is “Mastering Windows 3.1”

it’s fun to run in the background while working

for your enjoyment, here’s a similar 3.1 tutorial video from that era uploaded to YouTube

https://youtu.be/KRi5mjMgORk?si=OFH7UhOQif5EUCtg

the 256color.bmp looks wrong, it's supposed to look more 3d, because it actually does use the 256 color pallette

Here's someone's personal archive of weird miscellanea, including old Windows wallpapers which is what reminded me. I use unironically use the classic Packard Bell tile background on my computers because it reminds me of my grandmother's PC which is one of the first I ever used.

https://www.dvd3000.ca/wp/extra/pb.html

It's weird that those give me nostalgia when I clearly remember our PC having a monochrome monitor. I wonder if my brain is retrofitting stuff or whether if any of those survived to Windows 98.

Delightful! Glad someone posted this