Screensaver History
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The first screensaver was allegedly
written for the original
IBM PC by
John Socha, best known for creating the
Norton Commander; he also coined the term screen saver. The screensaver, named scrnsave, was
published in December 1983 issue of the Softalk magazine. It simply blanked the screen after three minutes of inactivity
(an interval which could be changed only by recompiling the program). The Atari 400 and 800's screens would also go
through random, screen saver like, color changes if they were left inactive for too long. The user had no control
over this. These computers, released in 1979, would technically have earlier "screen savers."
Today with the help of modern graphics technologies there is a wide variety of different screensavers. Because of
three dimensional computer graphics which provide realistic environments, 3D screensavers are available. |
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