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The irony (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Shady_Shiroe@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[-] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago

Dave's Garage, the man who created task manager

[-] wischi@programming.dev 12 points 1 year ago

Going back to the MS DOS and Windows 95 days.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

And zip folders.

[-] danieljoeblack@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kalipike@lemmy.one 7 points 1 year ago

I love Dave's Garage! Great channel.

[-] Festy@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Got a TL;DW on the answer?

[-] XPost3000@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Electricorchestra@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] XTornado@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago
[-] downpunxx@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

THERE ARE DOZENS OF US

[-] Simplesyrup@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Death to windows!!!!

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