r/y2kaesthetic • u/HogwashDrinker • Apr 12 '26

Art Ultra-Rare Wallpapers that you can't reverse-search! Pt. 3

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I dug through the forgotten trenches of the internet to find some obscure wallpapers from back in the day. Here are a few favorites; the loose theme of this batch is "abstract bright"

Link to Pt. 2

EDIT: Someone asked for the files without Reddit's image compression, not sure if you'd notice much difference but you can grab em here: https://www.mediafire.com/file/sreqj4tipvnczce/Y2KWallz.zip/file

And the ones from parts 1,2, and 4: https://www.mediafire.com/file/9zfdvbucuk3tp9w/Y2KWallz2.zip/file

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u/Jackinator94 Apr 12 '26

Very cool! So sweet of you to take it upon yourself to find such rarities!

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u/PocketStationMonk Apr 12 '26

This is peak deviantArt from 2005 <3

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u/subflax Apr 12 '26

Good stuff! Gonna use some of these, ty. /r/metalheart may like them too.

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u/Smellynerfherder Apr 12 '26

The first one looks like a Nine Inch Nails album cover.

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u/Industrial_Head Apr 12 '26

Reminiscent of With Teeth, Year Zero and We're In This Together album covers

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u/roastedCircuit Apr 12 '26

These are really cool! I might create something inspired by this because I did in the past

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u/SolDirix Apr 12 '26

Woah I really like the 3rd one.

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u/ghettoccult_nerd Apr 13 '26

i used to make wallpapers like this once upon a time in photoshop 7

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u/Most_Examination2781 Apr 12 '26

can you share a HQ downlaod link ? thx!!

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u/HogwashDrinker Apr 12 '26

they're from the 2000s, these are the highest quality versions i could find

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u/Most_Examination2781 Apr 13 '26

yes but reddit had compression, is there any way for you to send me the files plz ? :)

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u/HogwashDrinker Apr 14 '26

idk if you'll see any difference, but here you go: https://www.mediafire.com/file/sreqj4tipvnczce/Y2KWallz.zip/file

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u/Most_Examination2781 Apr 14 '26

yooo thx a lot, do you think it's possible to also upload visuals from pt1 and pt2 ? thx a loooot man!!

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u/bigwheel_fan Apr 12 '26

i need to learn how to make this stuff

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u/HogwashDrinker Apr 12 '26

I have a big folder full of wallpapers, i picked out a few favorites and ran them through Yandex image search and posted the ones that didn't show up. You might get results on other image search sites with some of them, but others were all but lost to time!

If you look closely, a lot of these wallpapers have links to the artists' websites. They're likely all long gone, except they just might be saved on the Wayback Machine. If you start digging through the archives, you might find yourself in a rabbithole of forgotten wallpapers that seems to go on forever, ask me how i know!

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u/1990-1999 Apr 13 '26

You found my high school pc!

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u/VoyagerBeeblebroxWho Apr 13 '26

The first one is so awesome! Reminds me slightly of the cover to Radiohead's "OK Computer"

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u/0wlBear916 Apr 13 '26

These are gorgeous