Nadav Har'El wrote:
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004, Omer Zak wrote about "Dominating the world of screen savers?":The next thing that happened was that someone thought that instead of simply showing random graphic, why not show INTERESTING graphic. After all, the computer is idle, no?
During the last few months, I noticed that the first thing, which people notice about my Linux installations, is the screensaver.
For several years I've been wondering why the concept of "screen saver" even persists. Once upon a time, it was believed that constantly showing the same screen can damage the display, so after some time of inactivity a "screen saver" would run and show random, moving, graphics to prevent this damage.
Yet next in line was people starting to collect screen savers for the sake of collecting them.
In other words,
Is this the
"coolness factor"?
In a way, yes.
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