I have NEVER screwed up an episode so bad 🤣 but I think it turned out great, and I hope you love it! See you again on August 18 (rescheduled from the 10th) when I tackle the Pebble smartwatch story! 🔔Subscribe and stay tuned…
In a way, I think screwing up the location made the video turn out better. If they found the right hill, the video would have basically been a rehash of what MJD already went over in his video. The gaffe added something extra and I thought it was actually pretty funny that they went all that way just to take a picture of the wrong place.
Even if you didn’t get the exact hill, your picture still captures the feeling that Bliss is meant to evoke. Sometimes perfect recreation shouldn’t be the goal - homage and evocation are just as important.
Even though you may have gone to the wrong hill to photograph, those photos still turned out amazing! Also, I absolutely got destroyed by the Krazy Ken’s Quality Grapes stuff 😂
NT actually stands for "N Ten" which was a code name for the new intel chip they were developing NT for, as told by TH-camr Dave's garage who was an OS programmer at Microsoft during the beginning of NT development
I drive by that hill all the time. I only recently found out it was here in Sonoma County. Back around the time Windows XP came out, I was actually living in an area where I had to commute by that hill daily. And I think that would have been the time before the vineyards had been replanted on it. So little that I knew I was looking at the XP hill as I was driving to work. I do IT for a living. Funny I didn't notice it.
I remember that Michael MJD vid. Always love it when the tech tubers I view reference each other. That brief summary of XP's development also makes me remember the old Maximum PC issues following its development with baited breath, and how excited they were on its release.
Operating Systems are like modern day canvases. They have evolutions every so often but we build so much emotional attachments to them because we spend so much time in them creating, producing, socializing etc. I love the nostalgia it's like revisiting an old canvas and the paintings we created on them during a point in time.
Crazy thought, would you like to donate one of your Bliss photos to ReactOS? Seems fitting a Windows XP clone with no Microsoft code should have a similar-but-different "Bliss" hill in it's background roster.
As someone who lives in Sonoma County. Most locals don’t know about the “bliss hill” thing. There is a lot of interesting famous locations from movies and TV in all of the north Bay Area. (Sonoma county and Marin county) for example in Sonoma County, the beach at the end of Goonies is goat rock beach. The original location of Lucas Film is in Marin county (more specifically Lucas Vally) and a lot of famous scenes in old Lucas Film productions were filmed in Marin. George Lucas still lives there for part of the year.
There is a local park someone posted to google places as a lake, It is actually a river and the lot is owned by a local org devoted to restoring the condition of the river. I tried to edit such and give credit to who owns it along with setting the web site and other information for google to 'reject' my edits except the 'public hours' stuff. Due to the wrong information a fishing location and river trail exit has a shoulder to shoulder crowded beach making it a pain in the rectum to get gear out of the water.
All the Windows XP wallpapers have a special place in my memories. My earliest memories of using a computer involved messing with customization settings like wallpapers and screensavers. Have you ever made an episode talking about the Windows 98 desktop themes like Mystery and Inside Your Computer before? That might be a fun idea for a future video.
So ironic. We lived in Fairfield for 9 years. My husband and I enjoyed Napa, and as a family enjoyed festivals and special events out that way. I never put any thought into this photo before today. Wish I had known 20 years ago!
I am still trying to come to grips with the fact that you found information on the internet that was wrong. It was still.a great episode. Keep up the good work.
In 2001, I was still working for a computer store chain in the SF Bay area. Roughly a week after the attacks on 9-11, me and a bunch of my co-workers, went to a Microsoft Hosted event at a local hotel convention center. It was a pre-launch show for XP and gave a deep dive into all the new features of the system. We participated in hands-on demos, had a Q&A with one of the execs from MS, and even a catered dinner courtesy of the hotel. All of us went home with a goodie bag with a t-shirt, and other items, as well as a free copy of XP. I remember booting up XP for the first time on my home computer and getting lost in that wallpaper. It did not erase my depression or sadness over recent events, but in weird way reassured me that things might be Okay... Someday.
My only claim to fame is being from Butler, Mo where Charles is from, he went to school with my dad. I need to grab his old yearbooks and find Charles because it is really cool he’s from Butler. Nothing much ever happens in Butler. Technically Robert A Heinline is also from Butler…the science fiction guy. The town is small, there’s not much there but it’s home.
I've always loved the Bliss photo. Not just because of the old nostalgia of the old computer days when things seemed more simple, but the fact that it's just a damn good photo. Plus just seeing the interview of Charles O'Rear being so humbled about the photo and the fact it's **not** manipulated in any way, it's all natural makes it even better.
Even though you screwed up, it's still a great shot regardless! I love every moment of the video, and the nostalgia made me love Windows XP even more! :) And no, I totally did not fangirl when MichaelMJD was in this. …Yeah, okay. I did. Him being in this video was the *chef's kiss* to it all! Yet, Bliss? Bliss will be forevermore my default wallpaper until the ends of time. Thank you, Charles. You've made Blisstory.
Ok but your photo looked REALLY good! Apply some photoshop effects and you'll probably get something relatively similar to Bliss, even if it's not actually the exact location.
You photographed the wrong hill ?!?!?!?! Boy, what a gyp! Who knew an empty plot of land could have an address? You ARE going to go back and photograph the right hill? Nah, you don’t have to, you got close enough. Great video
This is a pet peeve of mine: "Apart from the things that were altered, it wasn't altered at all!" This statement is self-contradictory and drives me up a freakin' wall.
Ken, Bliss is the best wallpaper ever, and I really like the story behind the Bliss wallpaper in Windows XP, and I hope Microsoft will create a succesor to that one, but anyways, Nice Video Sir!
This picture is the epitome of the "Reality is Unrealistic" trope on TV Tropes (It may already be referenced there, IDK; haven't read the article in a while)
ohhh I have been to the location from Sonoma, CA. Wandered on the side of the road at least half a mile, was honked by atleast 2 F150s, 2 F350, one truck and one Tesla. Now my phone stored this as an image when I am driving… Must be somewhere on my Pixelfed…
I've done several challenges where I go to a place where I took a photo 10 years ago, and you know what, even if it involves taking photos within a few kilometers of where I live, that involves a surprising amount of research. And a whole lot of walking in the rain going "f it, this doesn't look like the right place". If I were to follow someone else's footsteps, I'm sure the research and footwork would be no less dire.
MAAAAARTHA! I gave ken the wroo.. wron Hi..... Zzzzzzzzz All jokes set aside to the Computer Clan wonderful work as always you make my days shine bright just like bliss even in my state of depression I suffer from. Keep up that awesome work. And those pictures you took are so beautiful never forget that. :) Take Care. ☺
As someone that dedicates to edit maps, I can tell you, even if we're not sure this is what happened, if you edit the written address on Maps, it'll put the marker on a close place, but NEVER exact, tho that could change for United States.
I remember going to a Windows/Office XP information session up here in Vancouver BC, actually managed to obtain a copy of Windows XP Home that day, loved that OS from day 1, solid, stable, considerable quick on the hardware I had at the time. I miss it.
I wonder if all the mystique surrounding this one location is part of why Microsoft made the rotating lock screen backgrounds in Windows 10 that each have a link to their location.
I have NEVER screwed up an episode so bad 🤣 but I think it turned out great, and I hope you love it! See you again on August 18 (rescheduled from the 10th) when I tackle the Pebble smartwatch story! 🔔Subscribe and stay tuned…
Can't wait for how they got away with it
Beeper?
I have submitted edits to google maps to fix this issue, hopefully it will accepted and fixed soon :)
lol
I miss my Pebble watch.
In a way, I think screwing up the location made the video turn out better. If they found the right hill, the video would have basically been a rehash of what MJD already went over in his video. The gaffe added something extra and I thought it was actually pretty funny that they went all that way just to take a picture of the wrong place.
he created something of his own instead of remaking something famous
That call would have been a copyright strike call
And also add awareness about fact checking, which is i like.
Woah!! You left your lair? Truly a rare episode, can’t imagine how slow that 10 story down elevator is.
lol
You'd be surprised at how fast modern elevators can be
lol
Even if you didn’t get the exact hill, your picture still captures the feeling that Bliss is meant to evoke. Sometimes perfect recreation shouldn’t be the goal - homage and evocation are just as important.
i'm kinda happy about how the vineyard of bliss still looks somewhat good!
Even though you may have gone to the wrong hill to photograph, those photos still turned out amazing!
Also, I absolutely got destroyed by the Krazy Ken’s Quality Grapes stuff 😂
Those hills turn very brown in the summer time. Takes a good rainy season to make the Cali hills look so green.
I was there in late spring shortly after a rain. I thought they looked pretty green, yeah? : )
NT actually stands for "N Ten" which was a code name for the new intel chip they were developing NT for, as told by TH-camr Dave's garage who was an OS programmer at Microsoft during the beginning of NT development
which video did he say that in?
Not me fanboying over hearing Michael MJD’s voice 😁 Two of my favorite tech TH-camrs in one video 😀
Michael is great : D
@@ComputerClantrue
I drive by that hill all the time. I only recently found out it was here in Sonoma County.
Back around the time Windows XP came out, I was actually living in an area where I had to commute by that hill daily. And I think that would have been the time before the vineyards had been replanted on it. So little that I knew I was looking at the XP hill as I was driving to work. I do IT for a living. Funny I didn't notice it.
That's awesome!
Absolutely loved this episode! Going on journeys is always fun! You know… now you can name that hill, it’s yours to claim!
I shall call it "Utopia". ✨
16:29 - I believe that image sums up Windows 8 perfectly... oopsie daisy.
I remember that Michael MJD vid. Always love it when the tech tubers I view reference each other.
That brief summary of XP's development also makes me remember the old Maximum PC issues following its development with baited breath, and how excited they were on its release.
Operating Systems are like modern day canvases. They have evolutions every so often but we build so much emotional attachments to them because we spend so much time in them creating, producing, socializing etc. I love the nostalgia it's like revisiting an old canvas and the paintings we created on them during a point in time.
The IMac with the windows wallpaper is hilarious 😆
Crazy thought, would you like to donate one of your Bliss photos to ReactOS? Seems fitting a Windows XP clone with no Microsoft code should have a similar-but-different "Bliss" hill in it's background roster.
How would I go about doing that? : o
@@ComputerClan Official forums would be a good start, else the dev IRC/discord
As someone who lives in Sonoma County. Most locals don’t know about the “bliss hill” thing. There is a lot of interesting famous locations from movies and TV in all of the north Bay Area. (Sonoma county and Marin county) for example in Sonoma County, the beach at the end of Goonies is goat rock beach. The original location of Lucas Film is in Marin county (more specifically Lucas Vally) and a lot of famous scenes in old Lucas Film productions were filmed in Marin. George Lucas still lives there for part of the year.
There is a local park someone posted to google places as a lake, It is actually a river and the lot is owned by a local org devoted to restoring the condition of the river.
I tried to edit such and give credit to who owns it along with setting the web site and other information for google to 'reject' my edits except the 'public hours' stuff.
Due to the wrong information a fishing location and river trail exit has a shoulder to shoulder crowded beach making it a pain in the rectum to get gear out of the water.
All the Windows XP wallpapers have a special place in my memories. My earliest memories of using a computer involved messing with customization settings like wallpapers and screensavers.
Have you ever made an episode talking about the Windows 98 desktop themes like Mystery and Inside Your Computer before? That might be a fun idea for a future video.
So ironic. We lived in Fairfield for 9 years. My husband and I enjoyed Napa, and as a family enjoyed festivals and special events out that way. I never put any thought into this photo before today. Wish I had known 20 years ago!
My favorite character Old Man Ken. "MAAAAARTHA!" I think that intro was the funniest one yet since both Ken and Old Man Ken were in the same room.
Yeah! That doesn't happen often. 🤔
I am still trying to come to grips with the fact that you found information on the internet that was wrong.
It was still.a great episode. Keep up the good work.
Ha ha.
When you were talking about the launch of XP, the music you were using reminded me of the old CC days, like vintage apple tours. Cool throwback.
It's amazing how differently that picture looked on different screens
Ikr!
In 2001, I was still working for a computer store chain in the SF Bay area. Roughly a week after the attacks on 9-11, me and a bunch of my co-workers, went to a Microsoft Hosted event at a local hotel convention center. It was a pre-launch show for XP and gave a deep dive into all the new features of the system. We participated in hands-on demos, had a Q&A with one of the execs from MS, and even a catered dinner courtesy of the hotel. All of us went home with a goodie bag with a t-shirt, and other items, as well as a free copy of XP. I remember booting up XP for the first time on my home computer and getting lost in that wallpaper. It did not erase my depression or sadness over recent events, but in weird way reassured me that things might be Okay... Someday.
0:47 missed opportunity to say "sON OF A BLISS-!"
Bliss with the media center theme is epic. Man I miss XP...
I was just telling my friend about the Bliss wallpaper, and then you upload this video
I think you put a few cameras in my room, Ken
I love that you corrected gulls with galls. You found a way to do it because annotations are gone
The funny thing is I always thought it was fake when it first came out and only found out recently that it was real. It always looks weird to me.
3:28 I recognize that guitar anywhere...
One of my favorite YT channels; always informational and entertaining.
Awesome video! Also, really cool to see some of my footage in this video! :)
My only claim to fame is being from Butler, Mo where Charles is from, he went to school with my dad. I need to grab his old yearbooks and find Charles because it is really cool he’s from Butler. Nothing much ever happens in Butler.
Technically Robert A Heinline is also from Butler…the science fiction guy.
The town is small, there’s not much there but it’s home.
babe wake up new krazy ken video just dropped (love your videos ken :D)
I always switch Bliss for the Sand Butt. I like the contrast better with the start + bar etc
You should have looked at the numerous other TH-cam videos describing where it is. TH-cam is good for that!
Seeing Robot Arena 2 at 2:40 brought back so many memories. I loved that game!
I've always loved the Bliss photo. Not just because of the old nostalgia of the old computer days when things seemed more simple, but the fact that it's just a damn good photo. Plus just seeing the interview of Charles O'Rear being so humbled about the photo and the fact it's **not** manipulated in any way, it's all natural makes it even better.
0:07 THERE I AM GARY THERE I AM
Great episode. I have been to a couple of spots I thought were it in Idaho. There's lots of rolling hills here and in mid spring, they're all green.
Even though you screwed up, it's still a great shot regardless! I love every moment of the video, and the nostalgia made me love Windows XP even more! :)
And no, I totally did not fangirl when MichaelMJD was in this.
…Yeah, okay. I did. Him being in this video was the *chef's kiss* to it all! Yet, Bliss? Bliss will be forevermore my default wallpaper until the ends of time. Thank you, Charles. You've made Blisstory.
Blisstory! I love that. Thanks for watching!
@@ComputerClan You're very much welcome!
"Validation only counts, when it comes from complete strangers.."
TH-cam - Reddit- Twitter - Thread...
Maybe bliss hill is the friends you made along the way, even though you were a mile off!
hey that's my pic at 0:05!
awesome as hell!!!
Ok but your photo looked REALLY good! Apply some photoshop effects and you'll probably get something relatively similar to Bliss, even if it's not actually the exact location.
I first thought this image was computer-generated! I always ask 'Where are the Teletubbies?" :)
You photographed the wrong hill ?!?!?!?!
Boy, what a gyp!
Who knew an empty plot of land could have an address?
You ARE going to go back and photograph the right hill?
Nah, you don’t have to, you got close enough.
Great video
15:33 « more inconsistency = more redflags » 😂
7:36 I remember seeing tons of "Corbis" watermarks in the early 2000s. Tons of early flash animations used stock photos for backgrounds, etc
Omg this is my wallpaper for every minute of Windows XP. I LOVE THIS PICTURE ITS SO PEACEFUL
You are so fun.....Loved by millions.!!!
This is a pet peeve of mine: "Apart from the things that were altered, it wasn't altered at all!" This statement is self-contradictory and drives me up a freakin' wall.
Ken, Bliss is the best wallpaper ever, and I really like the story behind the Bliss wallpaper in Windows XP, and I hope Microsoft will create a succesor to that one, but anyways, Nice Video Sir!
When you mentioned the hil photo was part of a tragedy, I kind of hoped it was going to be Ampt-Hill, AKA: The story of "Masquerade".
Looking good, Ken! Keep up the good work ❤
Ohhhhh boy! Do I remember getting a copy of "whistler" and just being blown away by how much better it was! Even in that beta form
Before my gf moved to socal, I drove from Sacramento through this location twice every week to see her in north bay. Good times…
The good old Software Showcase music is back!
Great Video! Thanks.
You've got some amazing wallpapers. Thank you.
You're welcome : )
Er, the lightsaber advert is back. I got it at the start of this very video.
Time to track down that flower. 🌻
Let's look at every flower.
3:40 Robot Arena 2! The nostalgia!!
This picture is the epitome of the "Reality is Unrealistic" trope on TV Tropes (It may already be referenced there, IDK; haven't read the article in a while)
ohhh I have been to the location from Sonoma, CA. Wandered on the side of the road at least half a mile, was honked by atleast 2 F150s, 2 F350, one truck and one Tesla. Now my phone stored this as an image when I am driving… Must be somewhere on my Pixelfed…
First time I've viewed your channel, checked some your other videos, enjoyed this video enough to subscribe, nice!
"I know a lot of things, but I don't know... a lot of other things.." - Stand for something - John Cougar Mellencamp
Just seeing the XP desktop brings back so much nostalgia for me. Man, I miss those days.
By them time of the mayonnaise joke,
Im dure you're Aging Wheels alterEgo :D
The first thing I did when I installed XP on any machine was to revert the theme to standard windows with a solid-color desktop.
i know that you where not at the right place but the photos are still good keep up the good work!
i love your videos. where can you learn something and laugh at the same time?
I remember coming out of my GCSE's to my friend Pete who had the latest whistler build back in 2002, used it as my main os till the next build
I really enjoy Krazy Ken's Krazy Kapers, subscribed!
A great exercise in turning lemons into... more lemons. xD Glad you managed to salvage things, especially with the framing device. :p
I’d love to buy a bottle of Windows XP wine that was grown on the wallpaper hill!
I've done several challenges where I go to a place where I took a photo 10 years ago, and you know what, even if it involves taking photos within a few kilometers of where I live, that involves a surprising amount of research. And a whole lot of walking in the rain going "f it, this doesn't look like the right place". If I were to follow someone else's footsteps, I'm sure the research and footwork would be no less dire.
I've never been able to look at that picture without thinking of Teletubbies.
Same 😢
6:08 sonoma default wallpaper
First thing I do after installing any OS is changing background to solid black ... still rocking one last XP installation for BMW coding
"i can run' + brief nod to CMD... good call buddy, good call.
MAAAAARTHA! I gave ken the wroo.. wron Hi..... Zzzzzzzzz All jokes set aside to the Computer Clan wonderful work as always you make my days shine bright just like bliss even in my state of depression I suffer from. Keep up that awesome work. And those pictures you took are so beautiful never forget that. :) Take Care. ☺
As someone that dedicates to edit maps, I can tell you, even if we're not sure this is what happened, if you edit the written address on Maps, it'll put the marker on a close place, but NEVER exact, tho that could change for United States.
I noticed when I was driving to Mount Madonna. The surroundings reminded me of windows XP
I remember going to a Windows/Office XP information session up here in Vancouver BC, actually managed to obtain a copy of Windows XP Home that day, loved that OS from day 1, solid, stable, considerable quick on the hardware I had at the time. I miss it.
“Bucolic green hill” sounds like a place sonic would like running
At 6:28 the word Gulls appears and you pronounce it that way too. The correct word is galls (abnormal outgrowths of plant tissues).
i cant believe i watched long videos about bliss twice lol
Yooo my picture of my rig got used. Dope!
Congratulations
Hey your intro ping sounds like the Japanese alert when North Korea launches a missile 😅
I live a few miles from here, I drive by it every day!
I found the spot in MSFS2020 and took a picture of it once. Good times
that ending got me dude what 😭
Imagine drinking wine that came from the windows xp wallpaper
Another great video. Thanks Ken!
10:23 Look, Ma! I'm in this episode! 👈👀
Love old man Ken's G4 ibook... having just Morph OS'd my own... ;)
I wonder if all the mystique surrounding this one location is part of why Microsoft made the rotating lock screen backgrounds in Windows 10 that each have a link to their location.
Hey, I’m in this video @10:22.
Ken, the video is still awesome. Well done.