A bit late but in my recollection, this pattern started with Windows Vista asking for admin permission to do anything, like changing your background. Which in t

A bit late but in my recollection, this pattern started with Windows Vista asking for admin permission to do anything, like changing your background. Which in turn was borrowed from the `sudo` pattern which had been pretty normalized in Linux land over doing everything as `root`. Of course, I remember kneejerk-sudo-ing a lot.