Explore Wikipedia Like a Windows XP Desktop

Post by hnlmorg » Fri, May 15, 2026, 10:51 AM UTC

Post by senfiaj » Fri, May 15, 2026, 10:54 AM UTC

unrvl22 wrote: post #2

love how it loads instantly and feels smooth. imo useless but still cool

Post by Eonexus » Fri, May 15, 2026, 10:56 AM UTC

Post by pratio » Fri, May 15, 2026, 10:59 AM UTC

angilr wrote: post #12

Kwpolska wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Wikipedia article does: > After several hours and several drug injections, Jackson was still unable to fall asleep, and, according to Murray, was repeatedly asking him for "milk", a nickname for the powerful surgical general anesthetic propofol, which Jackson had used in the past as a sleep aid. At 10:40 a.m., with Jackson still not asleep, Murray relented to his requests and injected him with 25 milligrams of pr…

Thanks! TIL that Propofol has a nickname "Milk of amnesia". MJ asked more milk which meant more propofol.

Post by sznio » Fri, May 15, 2026, 11:08 AM UTC

hliyan wrote: post #28

Incredibly beautiful, possibly because it maps so well to the mental model we typically use to organize knowledge in our heads. I don't know how we lost the folder/container vs. document/content iconography, and other things (like layout of items, sorting) during the shift to web applications.