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Screen saver

a program that displays an animated picture or pattern when the
computer has not received input from the keyboard for a specified period. Screen
savers were originally used to prevent .screen burn. or ghosting, a condition
that caused the screen’s inner coating to wear from images or text that was
constantly present. Modern display screens are no longer subject to this condition,
yet the screen saver has retained it.s popularity. Many interesting and
unusual screen saver patterns are included in both Macintosh and Windows
operating systems as well on thousands of Websites for free downloading.