A small program that plays when you're not using your computer screen, so that the screen is obscured from view. Traditionally used to save old-fashioned, obsolete monitors from damage caused by [..]

A moving image on a computer screen which appears when there has been no screen activity for a specific time. Screensaver programs were originally used to prevent damage to the screen.

This is a picture that pops up when you are not using your computer.

Animated wallpaper. Screensavers were originally intended to prevent burning a fixed image into your CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) monitor. Monochrome CRTs (Cathode Ray Tubes) were prone to burnout where the [..]

This is a program

Most people don't use screensavers anymore because our computers are sophisticated enough to shut off their own monitors when they're not in use. I will say that I think we collectively missed an opportunity to repurpose this word to mean terrible, ignorable television (or other content).

A screensaver is a computer application that blanks the screen of the computer when it is inactive or fills it with images or patterns. Originally designed to avoid phosphor burn-in on plasma and CRT [..]

(software) A computer program that displays aesthetic patterns or images when the computer is not being used. ''I made my screensaver appear after only two minutes because I enjoy watching it so m [..]