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Anyone else remember back in two-thousand and something or other (back when CRTs were still supreme), that it was all the rage to have a Matrix-style code-rain[0] screen-saver or is that just a "me" thing?

[0] - https://youtu.be/rpWrtXyEAN0

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I definitely remember that on more than a few screens in the college dorms around that time. Screensavers were a great little bit of self expression that's no longer in use.

I'm still an XScreenSaver fan, mostly because I like having something visually interesting on my monitors when I lock my workstation to go afk at work. Many of the engineers I work with do the same. Makes me glad they're not dead everywhere yet.

Particularly attached to the analog TV one: https://youtu.be/VmM1KkFsry0?list=PLbe67PprBSpqM_-HU49fmIS8n...

Don't worry about it. They went away with LCD screens, but they'll come back with OLED screens :-)

My computer still has a screensaver, so they’re not completely dead :)

I still have this on my desktop, my laptop, as a live wallpaper on my phone, and the background on my spare phone, which is the new 4g version of the Nokia 8810 from the first movie. I'll never give up my digital rain screensavers!

I definitely had one too.

TBH it's dated pretty well. Still a cool asthetic.

And then people used electric sheep in the later two-thousands which was a pretty interesting concept.

Dunno if it's still "all the rage" but I've been using nothing else on some of my machines for at least 7 years, because I've not found another screen saver that I liked more. Otherwise I'll just go for blank=black.

I've got one on my 1440p IPS screen today, not quite as good as a CRT though. I wasn't even alive when it came out but it has always been my favorite film from the day I saw it.

Well now I'm feeling old.

I remember learning about the Canvas API by making one of those in JavaScript. Good times!

Indeed. I also recall a number of pretty cool Max Payne Matrix mods.

There was also the Lobby Shootout done on an earlier version of the Max Payne engine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E14Kt1ynvic

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