After Dark (or 'AD,' as we called it) allowed you to select from a bunch of screensaver options, but the most popular was, at least among my friends, 'Flying Toasters.' Here's a variant including a fight song! It was originally called 'Magic ScreenSaver' before adopting the After Dark name (note: see the bottom of this post for a bit more on the history here). Enjoy! Mac LC 575 - Flying ToastersĪfter Dark was a popular screensaver package developed in 1989. Here's a roundup of some screensavers I remember from the Good Old Days of computing - the 90s - when screensavers were delightfully corny, 3D graphics meant 'the future,' and flying toasters invaded our dreams. But what started as a pragmatic solution quickly turned to the realm of entertainment: if you're going to display some random stuff on the screen, why not make it fun? Screensavers were programs that kicked in when you weren't using the computer, in order to prevent 'burn-in' of constant onscreen elements like menu bars. In the early days of CRT monitors, we had real technical reasons requiring screensavers for our computers.
