Why 90s Screen Savers Were Full Of Flying Toasters And Endless Mazes

Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
16/09/2025 3 min Temporada 7 Episodio 1523

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For IT Professionals Day, the history of the screen saver, which was originally just supposed to keep monitors from getting overworked but eventually took on a whimsical style of their own. Plus: Warsaw, Poland is encouraging commuters to try something other than looking at their phones. Saving One Screen At A Time (Tedium)Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones (The Guardian)Save our show as a backer on Patreon

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