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An esoteric piece of Windows history

This is getting a lot of coverage today. When creating something new, it’s funny when you realize your intentions do not match the perception of others.

Here's some puzzle solving fun for a Friday night.

As we developed Windows, one of the minor decisions we had to make was what wallpaper to use for various internal builds.

These builds always leaked outside of Microsoft, so we knew that the wallpapers would also end up public.

— Jensen Harris (@jensenharris) April 21, 2018

Here’s the entire thread.

(And what do you know, Jensen is co-founder and CTO of Textio!)