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[–] mojo@lemm.ee 48 points 2 years ago (8 children)

We peaked with screensaver technology with the one with all those pipes

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You joke but way back in the day those 3D pipes caused a little IT chaos...

[–] V0lD@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 years ago

Their story may be embellished but the problem was legitimate at one point.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)
[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I found a few of these old screensavers and another one which lets you have a random selection between like 10 of them. It all still works on Windows 11

Starfield, 3d pipes and flying toasters are amongst the selection, I couldn't seem to get Jonny castaway working unfortunately

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Hey, my Matrix code screensaver ca. 2002 was the shit. Granted, I probably got three different viruses downloading it for three hours over our landline.

[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Rumor is if you change the elbows to have those knobs on the elbow you can see a toilet randomly show up after 3 hours!

I wonder how much time I clocked watching that

[–] Kichae@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Puhleeze.

Homer Simpsons eating my screen was the peak of screen savers.

Though, I guess it wasn't much of a 'saver' if it was being eaten...

[–] JigglySackles@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I submit for consideration the Monty Python screensavers which were actually playable games.

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Windows NT 3.51 gang represent!

[–] Gork@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

It is sad this screensaver has not carried over to the latest versions of Windows. Maybe a 4k remaster is needed.