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What are you currently feeling nostalgic about?

Around the 2000s and early 2010s people made anime and video game wallpapers with a particular look that makes them look aged whenever they come up on my computer. It's usually official or fan art with elaborate effects applied, edited onto a background, and/or with cool text added. Another popular category was vectors, where characters were reduced to colorful silhouettes, which I think people still make every so often. If you want to see some examples, minitokyo.net and animewallpapers.com are still up and full of this era of wallpapers. I dunno if there are still people out there making desktop anime wallpapers like this. Most of the old websites are dead, unsurprisingly, with dead DeviantArt pages.

I have a big folder of wallpapers I don't use anymore (I didn't have a HD monitor for a very long time) that's preserved a lot of old ones from dead sites. I haven't looked inside of there in so long it feels like I forgot about this era.

I suppose most wallpapers now would be portrait to fit onto phone screens. Something about them doesn't seem as cool to me though. Wide aspect ratios gave artists a lot of room to play around with the original art or fit more detail into original works. The screen on a phone feels so limited I feel like I'm getting a relatively basic portrait.
 
The type of desktop backgrounds that look good change along with the UI design of the operating systems they were made for/on. I remember having a windows vista PC and I had a Wind Waker wallpaper that went well with the aero aesthetic of that OS. But it wouldn't look as good on a windows 11 computer. I use Linux now so I could probably customise my desktop to look however I like, but I prefer to find background that match the UI rather than the other way around.

The style I'm looking for now is hard to describe, but it should be something noisy (like film grain) so that there isn't one spot on the screen what draws all of your attention, but it shouldn't be so abstract so as to not depict anything at all.
 
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