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Speaking as an outsider that has no emotional attachment to those wallpapers: wow, they’re really awful (except maybe the first one)

I mean one of them is bright green and red? The holy grail of what not to set as a background, as well as one of the most awful color combinations (unless it’s Christmas)

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That was the era of rainbow-colored iMacs. Seeing folks use the default wallpaper that matched the case accent color was fairly typical.

Sure. Still doesn’t make it any better. Physical green is not as eye-watering as CRT green. There’s no excuse.

Many are undeniably garish by today's standards, on today's devices, and although they were maybe more refreshing to our palettes at the time and less intense in the default monitor color spaces back then, I must confess, I distinctly remember vetoing several of these desktop pictures as a late 90s Mac user, including the ones you pointed out. And the era of subtler, muted colors and tones showed up pretty quickly after these for valid reasons.

I still like the UFO ones a whole lot though ^_^

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