Turns out Windows XP's iconic default desktop wallpaper is actually a photo of a real life hill in the Bay Area. I went and found the hill, plus the amazing 79-year-old man who took the photo. My ...

"Bliss" hill, located in Sonoma, Calif. off Hwy 12, is the subject of one of the world's most viewed photos: Windows XP's default desktop wallpaper (above).

As the sun was slowly setting on Windows XP's empire in the late 2000s, the artists Goldin+Senneby took a 1:1 re-creation of the then-grapevine-covered hill for an art installation piece called ...

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