The famous photo by former National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear has inspired a new trend on social media. The iconic Microsoft wallpaper of a green hill and blue sky dotted with ...

The photo was captured in Sonoma County, California by National Geographic ... when it was set as the default desktop background in Windows XP. O'Rear took the photo on film with a medium-format ...

One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly ... Bliss, as it turns out, is in California. In Sonoma County to be exact. The 💜 of EU tech The latest rumblings from the EU tech scene ...

The green of the rolling hill and the bright blue of the Sonoma ... County sky looked too saturated to be true. Many viewers thought the image was computer-generated when it debuted in 2001 as wal ...

The hill in question was located in Sonoma County, California. Indeed, it still is. According to Instagram account Inside History, the Windows XP wallpaper image was taken in 1996 by photographer ...

The photo was taken in Sonoma County, just west of the old ... at Iwo Jima — considering how many computers worldwide ran on Windows XP and how long the operating system has hung around in ...

Tell me you didn't hear the Windows shutting down noise when ... but thinking of the rolling hills of lush green grass in California’s Sonoma County, matched in intensity with an equally ...

SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO ... O'Rear knew he liked Northern California's green hills, blue sky, and white clouds, so he got out of his car and went for a walk that beautiful day.