SONOMA COUNTY, Calif. (KGO ... O'Rear knew he liked Northern California's green hills, blue sky, and white clouds, so he got out of his car and went for a walk that beautiful day.

The famous photo by former National Geographic photographer Charles O’Rear has inspired a new trend on social media. The iconic Microsoft wallpaper of a green hill and blue sky dotted with ...

The photo was captured in Sonoma County, California by National Geographic ... in the world when it was set as the default desktop background in Windows XP. O'Rear took the photo on film with ...

The iconic Windows XP default desktop ... of the computer background and discovered it covered in wine grapes, across the street from an alpaca farm and Highway 12 in Sonoma, California.

One of the most famous wallpaper images is undoubtedly ... Bliss, as it turns out, is in California. In Sonoma County to be exact. The photo was taken in 1996, years before Windows XP launched ...

For anyone using a computer in the early 2000s ... the Bliss image was taken in Sonoma County, California. O’Rear was a former National Geographic photographer. One day, he was driving along ...

As you may have heard, California is recovering ... The images purported to show the Sonoma County hill made famous as the subject of Bliss, the default wallpaper for Windows XP, engulfed in ...

Your computer’s ... to remain as your background came from Windows XP in 2001. Yes, we’re talking about the idyllic, sunshiny Bliss photo taken in Sonoma County by Charles O’Rear.

For many who grew up using computers in the 1990s and 2000s, the idyllic desktop background now recalls ... after driving by a spot in California's Sonoma County where vines had been torn up ...