The Ever-changing Art of the Screensaver

This story was originally published in 2019 in the “Distraction” issue of Eye on Design magazine.   In 1983, a computer programmer named John Socha created what is considered by most to be the first screensaver. The program, called SCRNSAVE, was barely a program at all—after three minutes of inactivity, it turned the screen into a blank, black square. At...