I remember in KDE (3? 3.5?) you could embed HTML as your wallpaper. That was int...

hnlmorg · 2024-08-21T15:27:28.000000Z

That feature goes back way longer.

Internet Explorer 4 (Windows) with Active Desktop was the first time I’ve encountered HTML as a wallpaper. The performance was terrible on most computers of that time but you have to bear in mind we were talking about a few hundred megs of RAM being “high end”.

giancarlostoro · 2024-08-21T16:44:22.000000Z

Interesting, I wasn't trying to claim KDE's was older, just making an aside, that I thought it was interesting, I forgot Windows did the same too.

I still remember during the XP era where I thought 40GB was revolutionary after suffering a Millenium Me 500MB hdd computer...

hnlmorg · 2024-08-21T19:09:32.000000Z

It’s funny how it doesn’t matter how much resources you have, there’s always a way to fill it.