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Screensavers are a defunct technology which protected CRT monitors from "burn in" - a flaw in the CRT's design which would "burn" a static image onto the screen permanently if it was displayed for long enough (12+ hours). A monitor affected by burn in could still be used to display other images, but a ghostly imprint of the burnt in image would always remain.

Modern LCD screens do not contain this flaw, and are also able to be put into standby mode, further eliminating the need for a screensaver.

Screensavers are still used for Ricing and nostalgia.

Digital Rain

Digital rain is the classic Matrix screensaver where green characters fall against a black background.

At the height of The Matrix's popularity it was very common to find digital rain screensavers infected with viruses, often distributed via P2P filesharing applications such as KaZaA and eDonkey2000.