Retro Screensavers

Five faithful homages to the golden age of idle screens, drawn live on an HTML canvas:

• Starfield — fly through space forever, warp-speed style
• DVD Bounce — the logo drifts, bounces, changes color... will it ever hit the corner perfectly? (Yes. Eventually. People cheer.)
• Mystify — bouncing polygons with trails, straight from the Windows 95 settings dialog
• Matrix Rain — green glyphs cascading like it's 1999 and you just took the red pill
• Pipes — ever-growing plumbing that slowly fills the screen, then starts over

Fun fact: screensavers originally existed to stop CRT phosphor burn-in; a static image left too long would ghost into the tube permanently. LCDs made them pointless, which is perhaps why we love them: they are pure decoration. Tip: fullscreen one of these on a spare monitor and enjoy the ambience while you work.

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