To celebrate the X Window System's 40th birthday, I did a deep dive on something about it: the iconography of its boot-up stipple (that gray pattern you first see as the X Server starts up):
https://matttproud.com/blog/posts/x-window-system-boot-stipple.html
Did you know the stipple has a name, age, and cultural significance to the ecosystem? I'll share my personal history with it. What's yours?
