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Windows used to secretly use green screens to render videos, which is how you could trick MS Paint into becoming a video player
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Link: https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-used-to-secretly-use-green-screens-to-render-videos-which-is-how-you-could-trick-ms-paint-into-becoming-a-video-player/

If you opened up the ol' Windows Media player back in the 95, 98 or XP days, brace yourself for a mild shock: it was lying to you.

And by lying, well, what I really mean is rendering video somewhere other than inside the actual window that was open on your desktop—sort of a parallel plane of existence to the desktop you were actually looking at—before sneakily porting it over
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