this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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 (1 children)

Got a TL;DW on the answer?

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

[–] 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 (1 children)
[–] 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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