this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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[–] AceBonobo 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Dave's Garage, the man who created task manager

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago

Going back to the MS DOS and Windows 95 days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

And zip folders.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

And was a main part of porting space pinball to windows!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I love Dave's Garage! Great channel.

[–] Festy 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Got a TL;DW on the answer?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

IIRC It's because the programmer who chose the color was programming on a blue background at the time and decided to use the same blue for the blue screen, just to keep the theming consistent

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

My computer blue screened while reading the post to help keep the secret safe.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Death to windows!!!!

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