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deep space

throughout most of my life, space has been the most prominent special interest of mine. all of the things that happen millions of miles away from us are amazing - like stars going supernova, black holes, pulsars, neutron stars - and that's excluding most of the deeper stuff. the laws surrounding how stuff works in vacuums, going close to the speed of light, and getting close to a black hole are very interesting in both how they work, and how they prevent verrrryyyyyy weird things from happening. inside of the realm of spacetime, the things that i am most interested in is stuff like time dilation, distance dilation, going very close to the speed of light/FTL, black holes, wormholes, and the size of our universe as a whole. even though the rabbit hole goes way deeper than that, those are the current topics that i like the most. physics in space and around black holes can also get very weird, especially with all of the theories around what happens in a black hole or what happens to you when you reach the event horizon, spacetime swapping places... it's similar to how there isn't an end to space as we know it right now.

world wide web/the internet

the internet as we know it today is very prominent in our lives - maybe even serving as a dependency for some people. it is very,very different from what it was at it's early inception/release, which was waaaay back in 1993, on April 30th. however, personal websites weren't really practical enough to make - atleast until the introduction of geocities in 1994. when geocities was first released, css did not exist yet, and html 1.0 was the standard for html. this meant people were extremely limited in what they could make at the time with their websites, but also meant people would get extremely creative with how to get their ideas out onto their own website.

windows vista

Windows Vista was the successor to Windows XP and predecessor to Windows 7. as opposed to 7, Vista was (widely) badly recieved because of it's horrible performance (with Windows Aero), bugs, and overall confusion surrounding it's versions/editions. however, Windows Vista did bring innovation to new versions of Windows; this can be seen through the Windows Sidebar + Windows Gadgets, the Windows Media Center (if you got it), and most notably, Windows Aero (alongside others).

although Vista had a lot of drawbacks, one of it's main selling points was it's style. it brought a vast change in the design of future OSes (namely Windows 7), and even developed a new set of aesthetics (frutiger aero, etc). in general, Windows Aero was were Vista's design would really shine, but there were also other factors all working together to develop it's atmosphere/vibe. for example, i really like Windows Vista's taskbar with how the start button orb is integrated into the taskbar, and how there is a reflection along the taskbar with transparency. also, the Welcome Center opened at startup/login, which was a place to welcome you to your computer, making it feel like it is completely yours. unfortunately, however, when Windows 8 came around, this style was dumped in favour of the Metro design language. after all, this could have been the future we never had. the future that was taken from us in favour of investors and overarching corporations.