Wallpaper Your Desktop!
8:38 am in Wallpaper by Faceless Librarian
I’ve never understood certain computer terms. In a graphical user interface (GUI) like Windows or MacOS, the thing that you normally see and work from is called your desktop. That makes sense because the idea is that your computer is a virtual desk where you do things and the top layer of a desk is a desktop. Fine, that’s cool.
So why is it, when you use an image to decorate your desktop, that image is called wallpaper? I mean, you don’t wallpaper a desktop in real life. If I went to WalMart and bought some wallpaper and brought it home and started applying it to my desk, people would think me insane.
Oh well, it matters little because I’m starting up a new thing here, and over on Dioecism Squared too. Every so often, on a regularish basis, I’ll be posting some of my favourite desktop wallpaper images. I’ve got, well, I don’t know how many I have. Wait a tick…
(brings up wallpaper archive directory, scans it…)
I’ve got over 6,500 different images which are suitable for use as wallpaper. So I figured I’d share them with y’all. It’s going to be a real grab bag of stuff too because I collect all kinds from the sexy to the musical to the obscure to the stunningly WTF. As I post them here, they’ll also be available over in my gallery so you can always go there for archives or to get something you missed.
So, here’s ten to get started. I’ll be posting them in lots of ten, at least for a while. That’ll give you a good smattering to select from.
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