Background Mystery

I was browsing the Kirupa forums and l stumbled upon http://www.fadedpixel.com/ from someone’s sig. Thus, I decided to browse the site and got to http://www.jasonmayo.net/ somehow. Then, it hit me! I’ve seen that same background on some random site I have visited long ago when I was searching for domain names. I tried to remember what it was and BAM! it came to me: http://deepblue.com/ . I checked Jason Mayo’s work and deepblue.com was nowhere to be found… so the question is: *who ripped off who? *