After Dark perfected the screensaver

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Flying Toasters, Bad Dogs, Starry Nights, and Glitch Art. After Dark used screensavers to turn our desktops into art. And our personal computers were never the same. Today, I’m taking a closer look at my favorite After Dark screensavers.
00:00 Intro
00:16 After Dark's vision
00:50 Hands-On
01:32 Flying Toasters
02:23 DOS Shell
02:53 Starry Night
03:09 Bad Dog
03:22 Mowin' Man
03:35 Rat Race
03:58 Marbles
04:14 Daredevil Dan
04:29 Satori
04:44 Rock Paper Scissors
05:00 Slow Burn
05:26 Down the Drain
05:37 Even more screensavers
06:09 The arrival of thousands of free screensavers
06:37 And You Don't Know Jack
#retrocomputing #90s #windows98

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@rosskwolfe 3 ай бұрын

My favorite would be the worms one because when I was in middle school, my home room teacher pranked another teacher by setting her computer to run that screen saver at a specific time when he was going to be showing her how to do something on her computer. When the screen saver started up, he was all like, "Oh, no, your computer has a virus! What did you do?" This was the early 90s, so people who didn't know computers really could believe that a "computer virus" would totally manifest as worms eating your desktop.

@RetroTechDreams 3 ай бұрын

Haha nice

@YourLocalZombie 3 ай бұрын

My dad used to have a prank DOS boot Disk for an old Tandy 1000 that would announce the user was illegally accessing the computer and that the FBI would be informed. I used it on my sister and grandmother and was grounded from the computer for a month.

@RetroTechDreams 3 ай бұрын

A whole month? Brutal!

@YourLocalZombie 2 ай бұрын

@@RetroTechDreams Not really, this was the early 90's, so a Tandy was cool but outdated and was only capable of accessing BBS internet and even then it was slow. I didn't have my own email address and most of my friends had a nintendo or sega instead of a home computer. Computing wasn't the center of our lives like it is now.

@shadokwastaken 3 ай бұрын

omg i love the rat race one

@RetroTechDreams 3 ай бұрын

Haha it’s hilarious

@NETSABYSS 3 ай бұрын

commenting just to show support. Keep doing what you love my dude!

@RetroTechDreams 3 ай бұрын

Thank you! Much appreciated!

@hypersphere 3 ай бұрын

Lunatic Fringe - it was an actual playable game! and quite a good one!

@TastyBusiness 29 күн бұрын

I usually go for the colorful lines bouncing off the corners of the screen, it's way better than the default Windows Mystify. Flying toasters and Flying Windows are close second place choices for me.