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<\/a><\/p>\nThis is what my desktop looked like somewhere around April 13, 2000. I imagine it was either Windows 98 or Windows ME I was using at the time.<\/p>\n
Note the Netscape icons – ah, the heady days of Netscape Communicator version 4!<\/p>\n
Then I upgraded to Windows 2000 – what a difference! And just look at all the icons I had in my system tray (sorry, the taskbar notification area<\/a>).<\/p>\n Astute readers will notice I have a fondness for WinAmp that runs a long way back.<\/p>\n And here we are today. The number of icons has gone down a lot<\/em>, but that’s because I’ve learned the beauty of minimalism. And the option to “hide notification icons.”<\/p>\n There are a few more icons in my quick-launch area, but all in all not much has changed. I still use WinAmp (it’s semi-transparent at the top of the screen) and I still pretty much work the same way – often with the same programs – and my desktop reflects that. (Except now my desktop background changes<\/a> every 15 minutes thanks to John’s Background Switcher<\/a>. And of course I now use Firefox <\/a>and Thunderbird <\/a>instead of Netscape Communicator.)<\/p>\n I wish I had pictures from before this, but graphics (and screen captures) were kind of hard back then. Still, it’s interesting to see how far I’ve come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My computer sure has come a long way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,12],"tags":[23,21,386,24],"class_list":["post-923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-wallpapers","tag-computers","tag-history","tag-personal","tag-windows","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pimUj-eT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4720,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/09\/01\/windows-10-finally\/","url_meta":{"origin":923,"position":0},"title":"Windows 10: FINALLY","author":"Keith Survell","date":"September 1, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'd been playing around with the Windows 10 Preview on my virtual machine and I liked what I was seeing, so as soon as the \"reserve your copy of Windows 10\" thing popped up on my computer I filled in my name so I would be able to upgrade when\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/08\/windows-10-desktop.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/08\/windows-10-desktop.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/08\/windows-10-desktop.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/08\/windows-10-desktop.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/08\/windows-10-desktop.png?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4460,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2013\/10\/18\/windows-8-1-is-it-better\/","url_meta":{"origin":923,"position":1},"title":"Windows 8.1 is Here – Is it any Better?","author":"Keith Survell","date":"October 18, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Windows 8.1 was just released as a free update for anyone with Windows 8 - but the real question is: is it any good?","rel":"","context":"In "My Opinion"","block_context":{"text":"My Opinion","link":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/category\/personal\/my-opinion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Windows 8.1","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2013\/10\/windows-8-1.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4679,"url":"https:\/\/www.starkeith.net\/coredump\/2015\/03\/26\/windows-10-technical-preview-thoughts-so-far\/","url_meta":{"origin":923,"position":2},"title":"Windows 10 Technical Preview – Thoughts So Far","author":"Keith Survell","date":"March 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I decided to finally take a look at the technical preview for Windows 10 and give my thoughts on it so far. 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