stackyFACTSBefore screen savers were just pretty animations, they were desperate countermeasures against permanent hardware damage.
Before screen savers were just pretty animations, they were desperate countermeasures against permanent hardware damage. Early cathode-ray tubes fired intense electrons at an internal phosphor coating to glow. If an interface element was left completely static for hours, the heavy bombardment would literally scorch the ghost image directly into the glass forever, essentially branding the screen with a permanent spreadsheet template.
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