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Welcome to my tribute to the Hot Dog Stand theme, a theme quite possibly (but undisputedly) the worst theme ever to make it into any main stream software on any computer in any country of all time.

This theme was first introduced in Windows 3.1. It was buried among many other themes, most of which were fairly decent at least for the time. The other themes all had colors that at least somewhat coordinated and were thought out in advance. Then there was the Hot Dog Stand. One couldn’t help but to click on it to see what it was, unknowing of the fact that once viewed, the image burned into your retina stays with you until your dying day.

I wanted to give people a small taste of what some of us older geeks endured throughout windows development. I don’t know anyone that actually used this theme full time although it wasn’t for lack of trying. Among my circle of geeks we found out that after using this theme for more than 6 or 7 hours straight, it was common for your eyes to bleed. Some even sustained permanent damage.

I wanted to pay homage to the theme with this Hot Dog Stand themed web site and by putting an XP Hot Dog Theme file for download. At the very least this website should answer a few questions for you young people out there. One of which is "Why do old people suck at designing web sites?”. Well, you're looking at the answer.