Don't forget JWZ of Netscape fame. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/
NSFW.
Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
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Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#52Johnny Castaway [0] was my all-time favorite. Loved the Easter Eggs on certain days, loved that it adapted to the system clock to match day and night themes with real life and found the story entertaining (almost binge-worthy I might dare to say). [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Castaway [1] https://uxdesign.cc/the-tale-of-johnny-castaway-the-legendar... [2] http://nivs.dk/jc/ (open source recreation proje…
I just want to add that my first introduction to PC's was a 286 or 386 at my friend's house in elementary school. His dad had this screensaver and I remember watching the guy on the island.
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#54Someone reminded me of the iconic toaster screensaver the other day. And I totally forgot that people used to go to a physical store, purchase a diskette or disc with screensavers on it and then install it on their computer for cool points. Just wild to think of having to go through all of that for something you can download in less than a few milliseconds today.
Or copy a friend’s disk, piracy was rife then.
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I had this happen a couple times to my iMac. The worst time I went on a week long vacation and my screen never went to sleep. I used to use this program that flashed the screen white and black rapidly and it would clear it up in about an hour. Haven’t seen any trouble in a few years, is this a solved problem now?
I have a 2017 5K iMac and don't use screensaver. Just a few weeks ago I noticed that the Dock and menu bar is very slightly burned in.
Yep, there are two different 5K panels on iMacs, off the top of my head LG and Samsung, and the LG one does have slight transient burn in.
It's not "true" burn-in (like CRTs or OLED) as it goes away after a bit but it's fairly easy to trigger with the current trend of very white/light grey designs in macOS, the easiest way to notice it is move from a whitish area to a mid grey one (Daring Fireball is a great example of that problematic grey).
I also have been unlucky on that draw on my 2015 iMac. I barely noticed it at first but newer macOS versions have made it very noticeable sadly. One more reason to run Aerial ;)
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#56Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this. I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers. For people who may not remember: screensavers used to be a neccessity as old CRT tubes would 'burn in' an image if they held it static for too long - leaving a shadow of the static image permanently. Screensavers kicked in after a few minutes and displayed somethin…
Oooh now let's talk about PointCast. Who remembers when the future of the Internet was push?
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Screensavers are a thing again on modern TV because OLEDs have a pretty serious burn-in problem apparently. Not much creativity there, probably because it should not be annoying, so it's stuff like art galleries or subtle fireworks effects that also 'train' the pixels. Best screensaver I used to have was the BSOD one from xscreensaver, so many people fell for it. Second best is the nyan cat screensaver. Currently hav…
In high school in the very early 2000s my friends and I thought it was hilarious to add bluescreen slides to our PowerPoint presentations. Most of the computers ran Windows 98 and it was a common sight, we’d get gasps in class. It was dumb harmless fun.
I knew someone that failed to prepare for their presentation, and did this as an excuse the presentation computer was not working and had to reschedule
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#58Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this. I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers. For people who may not remember: screensavers used to be a neccessity as old CRT tubes would 'burn in' an image if they held it static for too long - leaving a shadow of the static image permanently. Screensavers kicked in after a few minutes and displayed somethin…
Oooh now let's talk about PointCast. Who remembers when the future of the Internet was push ? https://www.wired.com/1997/03/ff-push/
Man I miss the enthusiasm and optimism of the 90's
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NSFW.
It's only NSFW if you click the link from this site. It's a referrer Easter egg.
Which is funny, because I'm aware of jwz and the history, but only clicked on the link because of the referrer joke. Maybe I should open a club down the street from DNA called DnB.
Re: Berkeley Systems “After Dark” screensavers recreated in CSS
#60Beautiful. The nostalgia hit me very hard with this. I remember in the original version you had all sorts of options, and could even combine screensavers. For people who may not remember: screensavers used to be a neccessity as old CRT tubes would 'burn in' an image if they held it static for too long - leaving a shadow of the static image permanently. Screensavers kicked in after a few minutes and displayed somethin…
Oooh now let's talk about PointCast. Who remembers when the future of the Internet was push ? https://www.wired.com/1997/03/ff-push/
Haha, PointCast was one of the earliest "next big thing" apps I installed on my Mac in the Dot-com era. I never really found it useful apart from the always available implementation of SameGame.