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That wallpaper is cray!
That's from the original EverQuest or one of it's early expansions.
I think it’s Ruins of Kunark
https://www.keithparkinson.com/product/ruins-of-kunark-photo-stock-print/
Buy a print to support the original artist
Dude I love you!
Thanks to sharing. This art really takes me back
I would have also accepted
Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, fam.
Nah. Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness
The thing about that screenshot that has me curious is the shortcut to 7zip which, although it has been around for longer than I realised, no one really used until the 2nd half of the 00's
Isn’t this just a screengrab from a win98 VM?
Given the presence of 7zip almost definitely
Which makes it kinda more interesting tbh—did someone at Ars set this up to take a screenshot of ICQ? Getting a windows 98 VM set up with all that other stuff just for an article image seems like a lot of effort for a journalist who probably needs to get a few articles written a week.
If it wasn't Ars, who was it and why did they set up a somewhat period-accurate windows 98 VM and then take a screenshot of ICQ out of everything?
Maybe I'm thinking too hard about this
Honestly I thoughr about doing it after suggesting that it might have been a VM. Maybe it was someone like me.
Oh don't get me wrong, I get that someone might set up the VM, I just don't know why they'd do that plus then screenshot ICQ and put it somewhere online for this journalist to find
Maybe someone in the art department keeps a Windows 98 VM setup specifically for these tech obituaries for programs and services people thought were long dead. I don’t think I’ve used AIM/ICQ/MSN Messenger since around 2007/2008, and it was because it had become pretty dead.
Good ol Everquest.