Aggressively Stupid: The Story Behind After Dark (2007)
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#2If you are sufficiently old and autistic, you can still buy the licensed flying toasters screen saver from a Japanese company called infinisys:
http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml
I was.
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#3If you are sufficiently old and autistic, you can still buy the licensed flying toasters screen saver from a Japanese company called infinisys: http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml I was.
Frankly, still one of the best things a VGA enabled screen can do.
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#4If you are sufficiently old and autistic, you can still buy the licensed flying toasters screen saver from a Japanese company called infinisys: http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml I was.
I am also.
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#5Nostalgia rush! One of my first programs was an After Dark screen saver module. I implemented randomly flipping Truchet Tiles [1] in Pascal.
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#6I just want the "Lunatic Fringe" game back!
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#7The author does not write about the broader context of the demise of the screen saver. Energy Star played a part, who needs their monitor on anyway?
Operating Systems also came with their own screen savers plus the people that liked screen savers were not prone to buying software, usually software was pirated or unlicensed in the 90s. Therefore this crowd were happy with openGL Windows screen savers. This was during a time when the Mac barely existed in the corporate world.
Really this product should never have existed and we should have moved to modern power management of monitors 30 years ago. Think of the electricity that could have been saved.
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#8The author does not write about the broader context of the demise of the screen saver. Energy Star played a part, who needs their monitor on anyway? Operating Systems also came with their own screen savers plus the people that liked screen savers were not prone to buying software, usually software was pirated or unlicensed in the 90s. Therefore this crowd were happy with openGL Windows screen savers. This was during…
And now we live in a time when I regularly hear people refer to their desktop wallpaper as their "screen saver" at work. I'm occasionally tempted to point out that a static wallpaper is the complete opposite of a screen saver, but then I remember that nobody likes a pedant (even an accurate one).
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#9The author does not write about the broader context of the demise of the screen saver. Energy Star played a part, who needs their monitor on anyway? Operating Systems also came with their own screen savers plus the people that liked screen savers were not prone to buying software, usually software was pirated or unlicensed in the 90s. Therefore this crowd were happy with openGL Windows screen savers. This was during…
And now we live in a time when I regularly hear people refer to their desktop wallpaper as their "screen saver" at work. I'm occasionally tempted to point out that a static wallpaper is the complete opposite of a screen saver, but then I remember that nobody likes a pedant (even an accurate one).
I remember lots of people doing that at least as far back as when Windows 3.x was common.
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#10If you are sufficiently old and autistic, you can still buy the licensed flying toasters screen saver from a Japanese company called infinisys: http://en.infinisys.co.jp/product/flyingtoasters/index.shtml I was.
I don't consider myself old, but I think the fact that these screensavers are still available is great.