{"id":12973,"date":"2010-09-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/09\/01\/yes-the-windows-7-beta-wallpaper-was-a-picture-of-a-betta-fish\/"},"modified":"2010-09-01T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T07:00:00","slug":"yes-the-windows-7-beta-wallpaper-was-a-picture-of-a-betta-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20100901-00\/?p=12973","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the Windows 7 beta wallpaper was a picture of a betta fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before people realized that the fish in the default wallpaper for the Windows&nbsp;7 beta was a betta fish. This was intended to be a cute little pun, though some people <a href=\"http:\/\/news.softpedia.com\/news\/The-Story-of-the-Windows-7-Beta-Fish-101857.shtml\"> took the semiotics to an extreme<\/a>,\n Dude, this is Windows, not <i>The Da Vinci Code<\/i>. It&#8217;s not like the people who chose the wallpaper are using a backchannel to pass secret messages to you like &#8220;I know I&#8217;m not supposed to tell you, but here&#8217;s the Windows product schedule&#8221; or &#8220;Help, I&#8217;m trapped in a wallpaper factory!&#8221; They&#8217;re just having a bit of fun.\n I have yet to see anybody point out that the fish was blowing <i>seven<\/i> bubbles. And no, I don&#8217;t know what it &#8220;signifies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p> (I always wonder about the people who claim that the government embeds subtle messages about their complex conspiracies in plain sight. If you want to keep a secret, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/ny2\/russkafin\/fcrules.html\"> you don&#8217;t run around talking about it<\/a><a>!) <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before people realized that the fish in the default wallpaper for the Windows&nbsp;7 beta was a betta fish. This was intended to be a cute little pun, though some people took the semiotics to an extreme, Dude, this is Windows, not The Da Vinci Code. It&#8217;s not like the people who chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-12973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t long before people realized that the fish in the default wallpaper for the Windows&nbsp;7 beta was a betta fish. This was intended to be a cute little pun, though some people took the semiotics to an extreme, Dude, this is Windows, not The Da Vinci Code. It&#8217;s not like the people who chose [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}