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I really liked that look. The first iOS versions also had a similar pattern in the background: https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2011/11/11/setting-custom-...

Yes, and it was actually Microsoft who first brought the iMac stripes to Mac software with Internet Explorer 5, before OS X.

Not just the UI. Apple products in general. The G3 iMac, Apple Cinema Display, Power Mac G4 all had pinstriping elements.

I guess it was a carry over from the original Macintosh OS all the way back from 1984.