the after dark screensavers were the last time humans agreed on what peak personal computing looked like

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@rmi god those were so good. I should put a flying toaster sticker on my laptop or something.
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The Screensaver from that period with the cockroaches running under the icons was a hoot.
I didn't keep it on my screen long but it was a hoot.
@rmi Dancing Baby.
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I'd say milkdrop on winamp was up there.
@rmi @jwz They took away my Star Trek edition. Then years later bricked the functionality of my multi-monitor HAL 9000 project screen saver because - copyrights - that don’t apply to AI bots scraping up humanity’s creativity to sell it back to us at a profit. That and and Apple’s desire to lock down their OS user interface design constraining creativity and any emulation software that give us access to our old faithful flying toasters.