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digital fidgeting invented to save monitors that no longer need saving.
means a moving image that appears on an idle screen, originally to prevent burn-in and now mostly just to look cool while you get coffee.
from born in the early 1980s for phosphor-based CRT monitors, which would permanently burn in static images left too long — flying toasters and pipes were the cure, not the decoration.
burn-inCRTs actually needed this, LCDs never did
flying toastersafter dark's icon became 90s pop culture
mac mazeapple shipped one that ran for decades
obsolete purposemodern screens sleep instead of burning