“The light comes on and then the sleep does not come!
The phone makes you insomniac and then some!
Put it down, there’s a whole lot to see and hear!
Just talk to family and friends far and near!”
A great entertainment when you had no entertainment in your computer was this programme which was actually made to save the screen!
yes! You got it!
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There was a scene in the series Office where the whole gang was actually staring at the screen of the monitor and looking at the square box jumping up and down!
When it used to hit the corner it used to change colour! Then you would think it would hit the perfect corner which is what the office staff watching with interest and not the talk from the boss!
The amazing screen saver!
The standard moving box screensaver was also very popular! It used to look like a ping pong ball hitting the net! Everytime it used to hit the colour used to change! For folks who did not have reels or shorts; that was a great time pass!
There was a time when screen saver was like the status in your whatsapp or FB! It showed your interest or passion!
People used to take a great deal of time to decide on the perfect screensaver! There were so many apps and programs and one of the great deals of new movies or books were its screensavers!
Some cool screensavers also came with music and songs! One of this was my brother’s favourite! The moment you were away from the computer for even five minutes the song would blaze over the speakers! Even now I cannot listen to that particular song though I love music!
In fact many inbuilt music players like the windows media player had these amazing screensavers like audio waves! They were just simple waves which used to move with the intensity of the sound!
Later on even smaller mobile devices started adding a modification of the screen saver which is now called the lock screen! Wallpapers though shifted without any change! Another craze were the icons! Of course all these were part of a broad classification called the Theme!
But did you know that for all the fame and name, they were actually just a passing invention to prevent screen burn out!?
In 1983, a computer programmer named John Socha created a program, called SCRNSAVE which was barely a program at all—after three minutes of inactivity, it turned the screen into a blank, black square!
At the time, Socha developed SCRNSAVE for a mostly a specific practical purpose. Before that you must also know that Socha was the creator of Norton Commander, a file management program that gave computer users a way to interact with their files on early disk operating systems more easily!
In the 1980s, some of the high-contrast computer screens that Norton Commander ran on were susceptible to “burn-in,” a phenomenon where overuse of certain pixels could leave a ghost-like imprint on the screen.
Even we have heard stories of pixel burning on the screen! It was a horror story in the IT world!
So the original purpose of SCRNSAVE was exactly as practical as its name suggests—its darkened image saved screens from permanent damage!
When Socha first wrote the program, he couldn’t have known that his algorithmic experiment would create an entirely new genre of graphics software built primarily for pure entertainment! Soon, other software engineers would follow his lead and go on to develop some of the most iconic visuals associated with early computing!
Of course the screen saver was not one of the greatest invention but still it was fun! But if at all you need to know the greatest Indian Hockey player then without doubt it would be birthday celebrity Major Dhyan Chand! He was so good that there are legendary stories about his abilities and they are all true!
Now turn off your non screen saved computers and phone and sleep!
Shubh Ratri!
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