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Thanks for reminding me: you could actually set a webpage as the desktop wallpaper in old versions of Windows (XP and before). I used to have a cool animated wallpaper before it was cool.

I made an html page that used frames to load whatsup and other monitoring tools as my background

Win95's ActiveDesktop was pretty cool. But only for a while. Same here I'd bet.

Best of times DHTML was fun, doing Flash things without Flash :D