A story of a photo: The most familiar image on the computer screen

A story of a photo: The most familiar image on the computer screen

Users of Windows XP operating system have thought at least at once whether the meadow used as a screen background really exists or not.

The famous photo has been taken in Silicon Valley, San Francisco. Author of the photo Charles O'Rear lives just in the neighborhood of the valley. The photo, snapped accidentally in 1996, became the symbol of one of the most powerful and authoritative companies of the world.

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