I saw this article on the Register this morning and it brought back memories.
To be honest I had forgotten all about the screen savers I used to use and seeing the bouncing ball reminded me of the times I would find my young son slumped over the keyboard fast asleep after a tiring session of trying to get to grips with programming. I would never have imagined that the 10 year old I had chivvy off to bed would now be an IT Platform and Infrastructure Manager.
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A Washington-based coder named Bryan Braun has recreated one of the curiosities of the early PC age: animated screensavers featuring flying toasters. And the resurrection has been effected using cascading style sheets.
For the young or forgetful, the late eighties and early 90s were the time of the animated screensaver. The cathode-ray-tube monitors of the day were felt to suffer from “burn-in”, a condition that meant images displayed for thousands of hours would etch themselves in ghostly form on the screen. That shading made using early editions of Mac OS, Windows 3.x or OS/2 even more miserable than was already the case on the anaemic hardware of the day. Animated screen savers were the antidote and became a business for a software outfit called Berkeley Systems, whose After Dark screen saver compendium adorned many a PC.
Burn-in turned out to be very difficult to achieve, but for a while their animated screen savers were a thing, and clearly a thing capable of inspiring nostalgia. <snip>
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/03...urn_on_github/
Screen Savers