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A Dangeruss QNX

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Yes, it's the oldest upload here. Where are 1 through 11? They were internal tests of the upload script. Jark asked me to be the first 'outside' member and upload tester. So this was the first external upload. If you'll look at the date, it predates the official opening by 4 days. After testing was complete, I imagine devs 1-11 were deleted.

So besides old, what is it?

When deviant ART was conceived, one of its primary areas of interest was applications "skins". Basically, programs that can be user customized by the creation of or downloading of skins to change their appearance. Like Winamp, Windowblinds, and a ton of others. Back in the day, I was one of a group of "hot shit" skinners, who gained some small notoriety skinning for many applications. A French developer approached me with a partnership deal to develop a skinnable Explorer shell replacement (kind of like Litestep) or add on that we called "Hoverdesk.  So this is a screenshot of Hoverdesk in use mimicking a micro OS known as QNX.

Besides Hoverdesk, there are a few other skinable apps shown that complete the transformation. So what you see here is Windows 2000 wearing various skins to change its look and provide alternate / enhanced functionality.

Oh, yeah - Hoverdesk is dead, dead, dead.  It was neat at the time, but that time is over.
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aidentheepicmemerman's avatar

Wow this is it then, this is where all the madness started

LegoMaster2149's avatar

Didn't realize this was the oldest surviving post here. I happened to come across this by chance while looking for early 2000s computer screenshots, themes, wallpapers, etc.


How old is Hoverdesk, btw? Also does anyone happen to still have any old copies lying around? Sure, they may be obsolete now, but I'd like to mess around with them on older systems just for the hell of it, and as well as to archive them.

umbrankitty's avatar

man i wish i could've experienced these times... :(

it's so scary to think that i didn't exist yet when this was posted, i was still a fetus xD :o

Username-91's avatar

Back when deviantart used to be good and the art was original. Now we have blatant pornography, nudity, stolen trash, idiots, trolls, fetish art... Ugh! :puke:I miss the old site so much.

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AntwanThePBSTCFFan17's avatar

Back when deviantart used to be good

HeyImCookieh's avatar

This is older than me

ThatOneBritishWriter's avatar

Snap, it's kinda crazy.

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TheSamusterHTF's avatar

4 years before I was born

LexiDraws7's avatar
I have found the ancient treasure of DeviantArt!!!
PurplePantherPal's avatar

I was 6 months at that time.

SirSandman0's avatar

so... whats happening here?

xXC00LKlDSXx's avatar

this is 3 years older than me,,,,,,,,,,,

MicaelHD's avatar

Since everyone seems to say that they weren't born yet when this was uploaded...


I'm gonna say it too: I was about to born 3 years later

NetaroPuppies's avatar

This post is 7 years older than me...

aqefsdgghrgfdgdfgdf's avatar

And thats how all of it started. Crazy. Surprised

redb0nes's avatar

this post is older than me

GlowingAmethyst1222's avatar
But my sister was 0.5 older than this
GlowingAmethyst1222's avatar
This was 7 years older than me ._.
GlowingAmethyst1222's avatar
I haven’t born yet if it’s 2000 I was born in 2007
GlowingAmethyst1222's avatar
Well my sister beat this post because she’s 1999
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