{"id":190287,"date":"2021-02-27T01:02:44","date_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/man-finds-exact-location-of-infamous-windows-xp-background\/"},"modified":"2021-02-27T01:02:44","modified_gmt":"2021-02-26T22:02:44","slug":"man-finds-exact-location-of-infamous-windows-xp-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/man-finds-exact-location-of-infamous-windows-xp-background\/","title":{"rendered":"#Man finds exact location of infamous Windows XP background"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Man finds exact location of infamous Windows XP background<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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This hill is ubiquitous but surprisingly difficult to locate in reality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The iconic Windows XP default desktop wallpaper of a sloped green hill beneath a bright blue sky is one of the most viewed photos in the world, but its generic pleasantness has long stumped internet denizens in regards to its real-world location \u2014 with some believing it\u2019s not a real photograph.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The editor-in-chief of SFGate<\/a> recently set out to find the earthly subject of the computer background and discovered it covered in wine grapes, across the street from an alpaca farm and Highway 12 in Sonoma, California.<\/p>\n

The photo even has an incredible backstory: Charles O\u2019Rear snapp<\/a>ed the now-legendary shot of what is known as \u201cBliss\u201d hill while driving to see his now-wife on a Friday afternoon in January 1996.<\/p>\n

\u201cA majority of people who saw that photograph, billions of people, thought it was not a real photograph,\u201d said O\u2019Rear. \u201cDriving through the Sonoma hills in January it always gets a carpet of green grass, it\u2019s beautiful. I knew that, and it was just the perfect light, the perfect clouds.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBliss\u201d hill as it appears today. <\/figcaption>
Alamy Stock Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

O\u2019Rear, 79, uploaded the photo to a stock photo agency. When Microsoft discovered O\u2019Rear\u2019s shot, the company paid an unknown but reportedly six-figure sum for rights to it in perpetuity and promptly plastered it across the globe as part of a $1 billion marketing campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite O\u2019Rear\u2019s prolific photography career shooting for the Los Angeles Times, The Kansas City Star and, for over two decades, National Geographic, he is well aware that his omnipresent image of \u201cBliss\u201d hill will be what he is remembered for.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Charles O\u2019Rear, his wife Daphne Larkin and their coffee table book \u201cNapa Valley: The Land, The Wine, The People\u201d in 2011.<\/figcaption>
Alamy Stock Photo<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cAfter 25 years photographing at National Geographic, there will be no mention of Geographic on my tombstone,\u201d he told the publication.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite the ubiquity and fame the image has brought him \u2014 he says \u201cnot a week goes by that some email comes through about that photograph\u201d \u2014 having his legacy tied to the technology<\/a> company did not buy it his loyalty.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI got hooked on Apple,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Microsoft Corporation chairman Bill Gates holds a Tablet PC in 2002.<\/figcaption>
Stan Honda\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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