The Enduring Liminality of the Screensaver

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  • @RetroGamingNow
    @RetroGamingNow  11 місяців тому +527

    Wha....? RetroGamingNow made a video about a retro topic? Is that legal?

    • @rexxe001
      @rexxe001 11 місяців тому

      :P

    • @glitchy4043
      @glitchy4043 11 місяців тому +25

      it's almost as if it was meant to be...

    • @Hamza_Mansoor
      @Hamza_Mansoor 11 місяців тому +40

      ModernReadingLater 😳

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 10 місяців тому +6

      "I will make it legal..."

    • @Kwauhn.
      @Kwauhn. 9 місяців тому +17

      Retro? Yes. _Gaming?_ Debatable, but who cares since it was a good video anyway haha

  • @slavprussiaottomanfinlandUSUK
    @slavprussiaottomanfinlandUSUK 11 місяців тому +861

    You might like XScreenSaver, which has 200+ screensavers that have been developed since 1992. Its probably the best continuation of them since the 90s.

    • @KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks
      @KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks 11 місяців тому +46

      It's a pity that there's no Windows version of that, thanks to Microsoft.
      I'm currently building my own archive of Windows stuff from childhood in the form of a Windows XP VM. A collection like XScreenSaver could've made things easier.

    • @tendo649
      @tendo649 11 місяців тому +15

      @@KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks I think I may have found a Windows port of it actually, so while it may not stay updated it is still possible I think

    • @slavprussiaottomanfinlandUSUK
      @slavprussiaottomanfinlandUSUK 11 місяців тому +4

      @@tendo649Thats good at least!

    • @Si-annMusic
      @Si-annMusic 11 місяців тому +32

      Another interesting note: The developer of Xscreensaver made netscape! That is also the reason there is no windows version, purely from (totally deserved) spite.

    • @vapor404
      @vapor404 11 місяців тому +3

      after dark is still a favorite of mine its just got that early 90s jank i love

  • @elisabethfox1169
    @elisabethfox1169 11 місяців тому +425

    this made me unexpectedly nostalgic for the days of watching the 3D Pipes screensaver with my brother while we waited to be allowed to get on the computer

    • @stephaniethebatter7975
      @stephaniethebatter7975 11 місяців тому +20

      If you still have an old computer with Windows XP, go get it, find the 3D Pipes screensaver and put it on a USB and copy it to whatever PC that runs Windows you use now.

    • @undynlicia7554
      @undynlicia7554 6 місяців тому

      It was always my favourite screensaver

  • @wow-effect
    @wow-effect 11 місяців тому +120

    "3D pipes" was the best. I loved watching them go as a kid

  • @KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks
    @KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks 11 місяців тому +235

    The 4:3 resolution is a nice touch in these retro vids. Then again, these old screensavers may look stretched/warped on a widescreen res.
    I still use screensavers just for fun. I have Minecraft's Bricks, Wooden Planks (floor), and Quartz (ceiling) textures loaded into 3D Maze cos they fit well in it.

    • @quantum5661
      @quantum5661 10 місяців тому +2

      huh, so it is. my monitor actually is a 4:3 hp1702 so i didnt even notice.

    • @netkv
      @netkv 27 днів тому

      ik im very late, but it's 5:4, like old dell monitors

  • @gorejan1
    @gorejan1 11 місяців тому +94

    With more people having OLED monitors screensavers will come back as these are very affected by burn-in. I have an OLED monitor and am glad there are still some screensavers left in win11.

    • @Positroni
      @Positroni 10 місяців тому +10

      Probably not, the best option still remains to turn the screen off, especially for batter powered devices.

    • @Kwauhn.
      @Kwauhn. 9 місяців тому +24

      ​@@PositroniDepends on the batter. I like pancake for performance, but brownie is best for preventing screen burning.

    • @yosachaiko9969
      @yosachaiko9969 9 місяців тому +6

      @@Kwauhn. I love silly humor like this. Heheh! Have you ever used angel food cake batter? I heard it has good ventilation. ',: D

    • @DrSpaceman42
      @DrSpaceman42 8 місяців тому +3

      @@Kwauhn. i laughed too hard at this.. lol

  • @elizabethopoussm
    @elizabethopoussm 11 місяців тому +111

    Wow, I had no idea you were such an appreciator of modern art. I had never noticed the similarities before it really is fascinating once you see them

  • @mattguy1773
    @mattguy1773 11 місяців тому +289

    This guy manages to make the most minute things interesting

  • @kremstoin
    @kremstoin 11 місяців тому +37

    Oh I used to watch old screensavers with joy! Always got mad when me or my sisters accidentally moved the mouse lmao

  • @lalantes619
    @lalantes619 11 місяців тому +30

    I started watching your videos for your Minecraft ARGs series, but honestly I really just love hearing you talk about stuff. Keep up the good work, man!

  • @musingsofahomeschooler5332
    @musingsofahomeschooler5332 10 місяців тому +21

    The Backrooms really was a defining cultural event of our era huh

  • @olseaweedbeardye8622
    @olseaweedbeardye8622 11 місяців тому +13

    The world traveler screensavers are so surreal. To me they break the unwritten rule of liminal spaces, where pictures of nature don’t convey the feeling liminal spaces normally do. Looking at those images makes me feel like I’m not within the world anymore, more like I’m in the spaces those pictures are, and they have a whole world that doesn’t exist anymore, because they were taken like 30 years ago.

    • @salam-peace5519
      @salam-peace5519 10 місяців тому +2

      I feel the same type of odd nostalgia for the Windows default desktop images, specifically the "Bliss" wallpaper from Windows XP. Thinking that this was taken on some normal 90s day without anything feeling special about it, but almost 30 years later it feels like a window into another time. Especially because the sky has such a vibrant blue color you rarely see in the sky nowadays, I wonder if this is just because cameras back then took more vibrant pictures or if the sky actually looks less vibrant because of air pollution nowadays.

  • @nubnerd.
    @nubnerd. 10 місяців тому +5

    omg.. that intro about what liminality is is the most perfect description of liminal spaces are that ive ever heard. I'm a big backrooms guy myself and i spend tons of time looking at liminal stuff, but Ive never heard a better description of what it actually is than that. It's always so hard to describe it since its a feeling you just cant quite place. But thats it, thats it right there. Thank you.

  • @mina9e
    @mina9e 11 місяців тому +9

    do y'all remember when the rainbow bubbles filled up dad's desktop and just sorta bounced around?

    • @fwMMVII
      @fwMMVII 3 місяці тому

      I remember those.

  • @ItsJoeyG
    @ItsJoeyG 11 місяців тому +26

    Great video as always! Nice job putting it in 4:3 ;)

  • @legion903rd9
    @legion903rd9 11 місяців тому +5

    I grew up vividly remembering pipes and never knew what it’s purpose was till now

  • @salam-peace5519
    @salam-peace5519 10 місяців тому +6

    Surprised no one mentioned these Astro Gemini 3D screensavers that were common in the late 2000s/early 2010s. I remember loving the seasonal ones (there were autumn, winter, christmas, holidays, spring, space and underwater themed ones and some more) and installing many of them on my computer as a teenager (I was around 13 to 15 at that time). These feel super nostalgic now, they look like mid 2000s game graphics nowadays. They always felt like game maps you could explore, even though they were just screensavers without controls.
    Something about coming home from a stormy, rainy autumn day, sitting on your cozy warm computer and seeing these autumn and christmas screensavers always gave me a very warm and nostalgic feeling. It would be amazing if someone turned these 3D screensavers into a game map to explore or something.
    There are also some new 3D screensavers with more modern better graphics on sites like 3planesoft or screensaversplanet for download.

  • @LevBC10
    @LevBC10 11 місяців тому +9

    A couple years ago in my school suddenly everyone was using screensavers, however most people didn’t really understand what the purpose of one was, and just ended up putting a still image or slow slideshow, like one person who put their screensaver as a still image of hentai with the n word written on the image
    This video was a really cool dive into what I feel is the most underrated part of nostalgic and old computing

  • @tamatebako_yt
    @tamatebako_yt 11 місяців тому +27

    What a beautiful video! I don't have anything substantial to say other than show my appreciation for this video you created. It's a perfectly round package with no "sharp edges" so to say. I think videos like these are close to being an artwork in themselves (in fact I don't think this is even far fetched, as video creation is very much a creative process among some other things). Thanks for making quality content, please never change that approach to content creation.

    • @paulhudalla9527
      @paulhudalla9527 11 місяців тому +1

      Art is simply the expression of human creativity, so this would qualify as art by that.

    • @HungryWarden
      @HungryWarden 11 місяців тому +2

      RetroGamingNow doesn’t upload often, but when he does, it’s always a banger.

  • @destoyerdj4486
    @destoyerdj4486 11 місяців тому +86

    This’ll be a perfectly spooky video… right?

    • @TheXell
      @TheXell 11 місяців тому +14

      Boo.

    • @3RR0RNULL
      @3RR0RNULL 11 місяців тому +13

      @@TheXellAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • @retseekerreal
      @retseekerreal 11 місяців тому

      @@3RR0RNULL Boo 2.

    • @destoyerdj4486
      @destoyerdj4486 11 місяців тому +1

      @@TheXell AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    • @Teraticala
      @Teraticala 11 місяців тому

      @@TheXell AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  • @zivamayne
    @zivamayne 10 місяців тому +2

    Most of these screensavers have so much charm. My old living room pc used to have a multi colored bubble screensaver

  • @Kilrathi95
    @Kilrathi95 11 місяців тому +5

    Damn... This hits hard. Thinking back, some of my earliest memories involve sitting in front of an old Compaq Win95 custom box my dad built for my grandparents, watching screensavers and playing the JumpStart games.

  • @AmandaC.
    @AmandaC. 11 місяців тому +22

    I did not know I needed this knowledge you have bestowed upon us! This is such a cool background look at something most 80’ and 90’ kids know!

  • @cssmapping2010
    @cssmapping2010 11 місяців тому +9

    Its kinda a shame that MS isnt offering 3D Maze in their settings anymore. You have to download it and such but i never forget those cool tours i had in my childhood watching the screensaver going while waiting till the smiley comes. He always creeped me. And even today i feel a bit uncanny watching the smiley for more than ten seconds lol ❤

  • @paulhudalla9527
    @paulhudalla9527 11 місяців тому +5

    I'm from the 2010s, so there never was any screensavers on my computers. When I see some of this old technology though, it's a weird feeling. I look into a long gone world, things I can see, but never truly comprehend. I guess it is liminal as it's the end of a tunnel that I can't reach.
    Awesome stuff as usual, RGN, would be interested to see more like just if it interests you at all

    • @salam-peace5519
      @salam-peace5519 10 місяців тому +2

      Screensavers were still a thing in the early 2010s though, even though most monitors already didn't need them anymore because CRT monitors were getting very rare already, but screensavers were more a thing of personalisation, comfort and digital art. I remember installing these seasonal 3D Astro Gemini screensavers on my computer in the early 2010s, they feel very nostalgic and cozy now. Actually nowadays I have 3D screensavers installed on my laptop again for the sake of childhood/teenager nostalgia.

  • @vyce.
    @vyce. 11 місяців тому +2

    the game "samorost 2" really gives me this feeling of old screensavers, there's something charming about its visual style

  • @jamesr736
    @jamesr736 7 місяців тому +1

    I really like the unique screen ratio used for this video

  • @UltraCenterHQ
    @UltraCenterHQ 11 місяців тому +6

    My liminal pick is always the Windows 7 Architecture 6 Wallpaper. I always view it as an empty airport, but I really don't know what it is. It feels like a nightmare's imitation of it

  • @lk_iron1220
    @lk_iron1220 11 місяців тому +17

    Am I going to regret watching this when I go to sleep? Yes. Will I stop watching? No.

    • @BeepBoopBee
      @BeepBoopBee 11 місяців тому +3

      As someone who should've been asleep almost two hours ago, I feel called out 😅

    • @Posel64
      @Posel64 6 місяців тому

      you’re not alone

  • @gaku3725
    @gaku3725 11 місяців тому +2

    The second you mentioned After dark and I saw the flying toaster, my mind remembered the After Dark Game collection I used to play. Me and my brothers used to play those games for hours. We always wondered why there was a game about a flying toaster, it looks like the games reused assests from the screensavers.

  • @PuppyLuver256
    @PuppyLuver256 11 місяців тому +5

    I still use a screensaver on my Windows 10 machine, Ribbons specifically, just for the Vibes. And I can remember a time when I previewed a screensaver of multicolored dots as a kid without realizing I'd put a password on the screensaver and accidentally locking the computer up until I remembered the password... which was "Pikachu", because of course it was. (dw that's not any of my current passwords so I feel safe to share)

    • @KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks
      @KyanoAng3l0_Mtvtks 11 місяців тому

      I'm using the Matrix Trilogy screensaver on my Windows 11 machine, which I've been using since Vista, heh.

    • @stephaniethebatter7975
      @stephaniethebatter7975 11 місяців тому +2

      It's probably a good thing you still use screensavers. Because even LCDs and OLEDs can suffer from image persistence, which is far more common than burn-in, but thankfully temporary.

    • @salam-peace5519
      @salam-peace5519 10 місяців тому +1

      I'm using seasonal 3D screensavers nowadays again just for the sake of nostalgia and the vibes. I remember installing these 3D Astro Gemini screensavers back then in the late 2000s which are very nostalgic for me now. Surprised no one mentioned them yet.

  • @herobrinevjwj
    @herobrinevjwj 8 місяців тому

    I came to this channel because of the Minecraft theories, and I'm so glad I stuck around. Hope to see more videos like this one in the future. (Maybe eventually covering more liminality stuff)

  • @ov-103
    @ov-103 6 місяців тому

    no matter how many videos are made about liminal spaces, they’ll always be great to watch since everyone’s feelings and thoughts about them are so specific to their human experience. love it

  • @Vivat_Veritas
    @Vivat_Veritas 11 місяців тому +5

    Really cool video RGN, I love seeing appreciation for older technology - things that we needed, sometimes still need, but are seen pointless and frivolous now. We'll always be nostalgic for things like this, and I think this video captured it really well.

  • @unglechips
    @unglechips 11 місяців тому +3

    New RetroGamingNow video holy shit.

  • @stephaniethebatter7975
    @stephaniethebatter7975 11 місяців тому +2

    I still have a screensaver on my laptop to this day. And I actually do kind of need it. Because LCDs are still vulnerable to what is a less serious, less permanent version of screen burn-in, that being image persistence, but it is just as easy to get as it is to get rid of. Screensavers can actually help remedy or prevent it and due to how little time it takes to get image persistence, I have my screensaver turn on after just five minutes of inactivity.
    And by the way, modern Windows can still at least run some of its predecessors' screensavers, as long as you copy them over from an older version of Windows. So you can get 3D Pipes on Windows 10!

  • @queenmelodee283
    @queenmelodee283 8 місяців тому

    This was such a well written video essay. Very nicely done, I thoroughly enjoyed every second of this.

  • @MrPopcornTheLoreGuy
    @MrPopcornTheLoreGuy 10 місяців тому

    Bro your narration makes everything scarier, I don't know if I'd be as scared at these type of videos if your chilling voice and that music wasn't playing over it

  • @metaworld567
    @metaworld567 11 місяців тому +3

    This has turned from a Minecraft theory channel into a philosophy channel and I love it.

  • @thebrownfrog
    @thebrownfrog 11 місяців тому

    Incredible video! I'd never in my life think I'd be so invested in a video about(what I before thought was boring) screensavers

  • @MrBelles104
    @MrBelles104 11 місяців тому +3

    This feels like a Solar Sands video. Awesome job with the narration & music, I've yet to see another person go in depth with the connections between Screensavers and liminality. The resolution of the video is very true, Screensavers served their purpose at a time when they were needed and when the time came, they left us. The new direction in this video is good, and leaves me wondering what other ideas you want to show.

  • @user-nd7rg5er5g
    @user-nd7rg5er5g 9 місяців тому

    Thank you for creating a video about screensavers! I've been trying to learn programming just so I can create freeware (okay, actually donationware) screensavers for anyone who's interested. I remember screensavers from my childhood making computers seem whimsical and otherworldly, and I'm disappointed that they've gone out of fashion. There's this one online "game" called The Endless Forest that was a multiplayer experience that you could set up just as a regular screensaver, but when your computer went to sleep, it would enter the titular Endless Forest. It really got me thinking about what screensavers could be like if we kept developing them.

  • @sporeham1674
    @sporeham1674 11 місяців тому +1

    Well that was actually AMAZING. I'm blown away by how beautifully put it all was, honestly

  • @szkraft220
    @szkraft220 6 місяців тому

    Wonderful video exploring a niche subject! love this to bits

  • @gauzyy
    @gauzyy 11 місяців тому +6

    i get so excited whenever i get a notification for you. you have to be one of my favorite youtubers, every video you make is so interesting and well researched. and the visuals are so well done, the audio is so perfectly curated that i barely even notice it. thank you for making the videos you make. i love this channel

  • @simonwillover4175
    @simonwillover4175 11 місяців тому +1

    Liminal spaces are my favorite. I always remember them, 100% of the time. I am actually less likely to immediately forget them!

  • @craycraywolf6726
    @craycraywolf6726 13 днів тому

    Tbh that smiling face in the Windows 95 maze unnerves me greatly 😰
    Nice video!
    Although I personally don't have conditions that'd harm me, I wanted to ask you to include a warning in the video about bright colors/eye strain and their movement
    Because some of the After Dark screensavers are a bit rough (though pretty) and I worry for others.
    Thank you if you read this! I hope you have a great day 😁

  • @elanv
    @elanv 9 місяців тому

    This was really great! I'd love for you to keep making videos on anything else you find interesting -- your presentation is always superb.

  • @tl4872
    @tl4872 9 місяців тому +1

    Finally RetroGamingNow making a retro video.

  • @teaoftraffic
    @teaoftraffic 11 місяців тому +3

    16:28
    YOU CAN’T HIDE THAT DOOM TEXTURE IN THE BACK FROM ME, RETRO.

  • @georgie-deeevanson6722
    @georgie-deeevanson6722 2 місяці тому

    What an amazing video speaking about an art movement we lived through but didn't realize the depth it hold now.

  • @FuzionTimmy
    @FuzionTimmy 11 місяців тому

    With the upload of this video, my day has been made.

  • @ElektrikaGaming
    @ElektrikaGaming 6 місяців тому

    3D pipes was personally my favorite screensaver, i would watch it endlessly as a kid

  • @Untrustedlife
    @Untrustedlife 10 місяців тому +1

    This was both interesting and informative.

  • @farribastarfyre
    @farribastarfyre 2 місяці тому

    Ever since I first saw a video about After Dark a couple years ago, I went and found a modern, fan-made recreation of the Flying Toasters screensaver and I've been using it ever since.

  • @DracoFroggo
    @DracoFroggo 10 місяців тому +1

    Honestly I just fuckin love your videos, they have a certain energy to them that I really really like. Minecraft mysteries are cool, but videos you're passionate about are way cooler. In my opinion, anyway.

  • @wafity
    @wafity 11 місяців тому

    Great video as always!

  • @Rainok
    @Rainok 4 місяці тому

    I remember as a kid staring at the pipes screensaver. I was born after they started becoming obsolete, but I really enjoyed pipes

  • @user-is7xs1mr9y
    @user-is7xs1mr9y 11 місяців тому

    Oh man I used to be obsessed with Organic Art when I was a kid! It was our first PC around 1998. It had belonged to one of my uncles who was into computers and sold it to my dad. It had a bunch of programs installed, including an emulator for the SNES, the entertainment pack thingy (I forgot the actual name), some educational games, Encarta and Organic Art. I remember there was this astronomy program which had very cool music, an atmospheric kind of music, and I used to have it playing in the background while I watched the cool screensavers from OA. I used to spend hours doing that lol, we didn't have internet back then. This video sure took me back. I wish I could have OA again. I use Linux now and I use XScreenSaver, and it has been like being a kid again in a way.

  • @allconfusion
    @allconfusion 11 місяців тому +9

    Finally! I’ve always thought screensavers seemed liminal finally a video on them that talks about that

  • @TheGlader2
    @TheGlader2 11 місяців тому

    You sir are excellent at being profound, I'm sure if you talked about something as simple as shoes you could give me goosebumps

  • @Stoopdman
    @Stoopdman 10 місяців тому +1

    I love it how the video is 4:3 to make it feels like an old video

  • @sh0rt.curcuit
    @sh0rt.curcuit 11 місяців тому +1

    you know its a good day then retrogamingnow uploads

  • @SimonsAstronomy
    @SimonsAstronomy 11 місяців тому +1

    Im so hyped for every video

  • @WINDOWSXP9013
    @WINDOWSXP9013 11 місяців тому +1

    Nice video! I loved it!😊

  • @ApocAnarchy
    @ApocAnarchy 11 місяців тому

    This is such a beautiful vieeo RGN, i love your nonminecraft videos as much as your minecraft ones and can’t wait for what you give us next time!!!

  • @alessandropasquali3371
    @alessandropasquali3371 10 місяців тому +2

    I like to imagine that the patterns you see when you close your eyes are the brain’s screensaver

    • @denisekyles4299
      @denisekyles4299 6 місяців тому

      more of when you rub your eyes too hard

  • @andyghkfilm2287
    @andyghkfilm2287 11 місяців тому

    6:24 I’m reminded of the idea of having a use. A lot of the liminal spaces were familiar with have specific uses, and aren’t filling those uses; the Backrooms is basically an infinite yet empty office space, for example, and an empty airport or shopping mall is the classic example of a liminal space. It’s eerie to see these places totally emptied of people, which contributes to the “liminal” effect
    11:30 oh. Yes, exactly.

  • @_Emit_
    @_Emit_ 10 місяців тому

    this video's end honestly made me tear up slightly, humanity is so dope.
    we'll be gone one day but damn i'm glad to be a part of it.

    • @InventorZahran
      @InventorZahran 10 місяців тому +1

      "So before we share your fate, we'll savor our time here. Can you relate?"
      - Space Cadets, in 'Children of Enceladus'

  • @jakeviana8306
    @jakeviana8306 11 місяців тому

    How do you not have a million subs already? Your videos are amazing!

  • @jellymop
    @jellymop 5 місяців тому

    Totally Twisted After Dark screensavers were the opposite of liminal and I loved watching them. Over time I would occasionally see some minor event that I’ve never seen before. Good times as a little kid.
    Windows 3.1 was good times as well. My grandma lived with us until her passing in 2010 and she played Shanghai (Mahjong) on our computer from that time period, up to that time. I had so much fun exploring the different applications of that computer growing up. It had Doom, Wolfenstein, the cat and mouse game. It also had a chess game where each removal of a piece from the board would show an animation of the two pieces coming to life and displaying a medieval fight scene.

  • @ItsDesca
    @ItsDesca 10 місяців тому

    I really enjoyed this. Great video dude!

  • @memes4themasses365
    @memes4themasses365 5 місяців тому +1

    This video is good to fall asleep because it won’t burn your screen overnight 😂

  • @robotomo4249
    @robotomo4249 11 місяців тому +2

    Such an interesting video! I have never watched anything like this.
    I've always gotten a weird feeling from screensavers and this video has perfectly described that feeling! It almost feel wrong to be there, knowing that you are in a place that in between on and off. Probably the last screensaver that I really enjoyed looking at was the bubbles one that originated from Windows Vista. Right now, my "screen saver" is just a big flip clock.
    I remember going to the shops and my brother and I would just stare at the pipe screensaver on the computer while my parents would talk to the employee.

  • @CouscousEnjoyer
    @CouscousEnjoyer 10 місяців тому

    Nice video, Retrodaddynow!

  • @lau_taro0037
    @lau_taro0037 9 місяців тому

    I have always thought of screensavers as the dreamlike state computers have when they're resting, the surreal imagery of the screensavers similar to the surreal imagery of our dreams.

  • @lpc9929
    @lpc9929 11 місяців тому +18

    I'm I Am infertile from eating scented candles

  • @CitadelBrulee
    @CitadelBrulee 11 місяців тому +2

    Loved this video!

  • @tlpa
    @tlpa 11 місяців тому +1

    screensavers always look nostalgia since they feel pre rendered, even though they seem not to

  • @Alimem54
    @Alimem54 11 місяців тому

    Great vid, i didn't know i had these on my current compooter

  • @isabellefaguy7351
    @isabellefaguy7351 4 місяці тому

    Brought back many memories.

  • @deebte__
    @deebte__ 11 місяців тому

    you're like sunnyv2, you take the most random thing and make a great video about it, while he talks about people you talk about ideas, overanalyzing something stupid like i do sometimes

  • @tulpamedia
    @tulpamedia 9 місяців тому

    Wow i actually love screensavers. Something about it is so unique as a concept. Its the computer analogue of dreaming.

  • @tendo649
    @tendo649 11 місяців тому +2

    Screensavers may come back albeit minorly if OLEDs become popular enough since burn-in is once again a problem for them

    • @stephaniethebatter7975
      @stephaniethebatter7975 11 місяців тому

      LCDs tend to suffer, too. My gaming laptop is just a sucker for image persistence and screensavers help get rid of that.

  • @Bub.tv21
    @Bub.tv21 10 місяців тому

    This video is pure nostalgia.

  • @Ringtail
    @Ringtail 8 місяців тому

    This video sent me down a rabbit hole learning about Terry Dorff :(

  • @ozelhassan8576
    @ozelhassan8576 11 місяців тому

    That was so fascinating, I’ve enjoyed this and yes I remember some of those screensavers

  • @uhm_LYC3
    @uhm_LYC3 4 місяці тому +1

    16:19 the Minecraft arg’s will always show up no matter what video lmao

  • @delofj
    @delofj 11 місяців тому

    Really loved this video, cannot wait until the next one

  • @theslaya1576
    @theslaya1576 11 місяців тому +1

    14:18 got that as a daily Landscapes background on my chromebook

  • @gusty7153
    @gusty7153 10 місяців тому +1

    so i heard the overall map of the maze screensaver is always exactly the same. and it's merely the positions of objects and start and end locations that are changed with every iteration

  • @SrCoco17
    @SrCoco17 11 місяців тому +1

    I just found out Windows 11 does have screensavers thanks to this video i am speechless

  • @matthe06w
    @matthe06w 19 днів тому

    please make more videos like this... it is your greatest in my opinion

  • @lilylohmann614
    @lilylohmann614 2 місяці тому

    Growing up we were an Apple household, so I remember a very different set of screensavers, lol
    Somewhat related, but iTunes used to have a visualizer built in that worked as a screensaver, and they got rid of it even before they got rid of the headphone jack. I miss it, but I think there is a way to dig around in the system to use it still. I used to watch it for hours while my dad was working.

  • @mateoybizcochitos
    @mateoybizcochitos 11 місяців тому

    great video mate, keep doing the thing

  • @Citadel_Ztation_AI_666
    @Citadel_Ztation_AI_666 10 місяців тому

    istg half of the older screensavers look like earthbound battle backgrounds, and i love them.

  • @XxguaxinimxX.
    @XxguaxinimxX. 11 місяців тому

    What a introspect video! That was great!

  • @lonesome3958
    @lonesome3958 11 місяців тому

    When I got this Video recommended I misread the length as 2:12:00 and I was fully ready to watch a 2-hour video on screensavers

  • @Povilaz
    @Povilaz 10 місяців тому

    Very interesting! I _still_ have Flying Toasters screensaver on my computer, it's a classic.

  • @Ashacarlosalbert
    @Ashacarlosalbert 11 місяців тому

    Well, I have now confirmed that Id watch anything you produce. Anything.