July 2003:
Likely you are looking for a different type of animated wallpaper than what is here at 40mph.com. These patterns are NOT designed for Windows backgrounds.
What you have found are common animated GIFs, drawn by me, that are designed to repeat in a wallpaper effect. This is why I describe them as Animated Wallpaper Drawings.
I did not know in December 2002 when I named this section of my site that Microsoft had a feature to animate the Windows’ desktop background. This is likely due to the fact that I create my web site on an Apple Macintosh and the Windows computer I use at work has the active desktop feature blocked.
I am not trying to mislead anyone. I am attempting to expand the genre of digital art by designing visually overwhelming patterns in motion. So what you have found is one artist’s experiment in pushing the boundaries of web art.
The animated wallpaper at 40mph.com is about patterns, animation, and hand drawn pixel expression. And I know a few of you out there dig this, even if it wasn’t what you expected, because my page still appears on the first or second page of every search engine for "animated wallpaper".
Probably I will change the name for future designs. I named the most recent work Animated Light Texture but a Google search reveals this term is already in use and will confuse also. Maybe a name along the lines of Animated Pattern Art?
DaN