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Podcast: Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson
Episode: Why 90s Screen Savers Were Full Of Flying Toasters And Endless Mazes
Description: For IT Professionals Day, the history of the screen saver, which was originally just supposed to keep monitors from getting overworked but eventually took on a whimsical style of their own. Plus: Warsaw, Poland is encouraging commuters to try something other than looking at their phones. Saving One Screen At A Time (Tedium)Warsaw opens metro station ‘express’ library to get commuters off their phones (The Guardian)Save our show as a backer on Patreon