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Comment by fredley

Beautiful. 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 something dynamic so as to save your screen from burn in.

In the 90's, having a cool custom screensaver was cool (around the same time that having a custom ringtone on your 3210 was cool), and you'd pay money for software like After Dark.

parent fredley 5 years ago

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