The next stage in macOS wallpapers was a bizarre one. The next macOS wallpaper era - which ran from 10.5 Leopard to 10.8 Mountain Lion - would probably be described as “cosmic,” but I’ll call “twinkly space stuff.” Those macOS wallpaper designs were like this: Mmm, I remember the days of macOS 10.7 Lion.
That ran from macOS 10.0 Cheetah up to 10.4 Tiger, and had an aesthetic like this: This is the wallpaper from macOS 10.3 Panther. The first is what some people refer to as the “aqua” phase, but I’m going to call it the “swishy-swoshy-blue-shit” time. Since macOS 10.0, Apple’s default computer art can be split into four broad eras. Or one of those weird drawings an AI created. I highly doubt that anyone will ever use this. But here it is: every macOS wallpaper from Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah to macOS 10.15 Catalina combined. Thing is, as soon as there’s a new macOS update, we tend to forget about what came before - but no longer! Why? Because Twitter user Jenny (AKA the thing no one else thought to do and combined every default macOS background from 10.0 to today into one magnificently psychedelic masterpiece. Pretty, right? That (imaginary) single Apple employee who takes these photos sure did a good job. You know, like the one the company’s currently using on macOS 10.15 Catalina: Truly, a gorgeous rocky outcrop that makes me feel all kinds of things, like “wow,” “that’s cute,” and “I’m glad I don’t live there, they don’t even have a supermarket.” Each year, they only have to do a single thing: Traverse the world and try to take a sick photo of a landscape for the latest macOS wallpaper.ĭoes this job exist? Who knows, but I can dream.Īnyway, one of the most fun (I use this term loosely) parts of new macOS releases is discovering what new photo they have as their backgrounds. I like to think that somewhere inside the bureaucratic labyrinth of Apple’s employee structure, there’s a single person with the world’s greatest job.
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