Are you serious? By the time I got my first Mac (1987), there was already Pyro, wonderful black-and-white fireworks (with a floating clock option, too), which I still keep on a (mostly idle) SE, but still enjoy watching. Then there was After Dark, from Berkeley Systems, originally just a fascinating cityscape with the lights gradually turning on (the ads in Macworld Magazine conveyed an air of drama and mystery that perhaps exceeded the reality); then After Dark 2, with its many modules, mostly in color.

In those days screen savers were considered essential, to prevent monitor burn-in from an image left on for hours (hence the name). Sometime around the mid-nineties the OS began to switch the monitors to a 'sleep' or 'energy-saving' mode when idle, which pretty much obviated the need for screen savers (though they were more important in the Windoze world, 'cuz you could password-protect the system with them)--as I recall people also said the monitor screen chemistry was less susceptible to burn-in.

If you do a search on 'screen savers Mac', you'll find a bunch of lesser-known types, many of which will run on 68K Macs.

These days, I let SETI's 'screen saver' run for a few minutes on my G3 before the monitor blanks out, though it is getting a little dull.

/Mr Lynn

The screen-saver or the monitor???

Sorry, had to jump on that one...

Both, actually--but I was referring to the SETI screen saver. They need to introduce some new ones, maybe with BEMs attacking scantily-clad babes, or something (for those of you old enough to remember the sci-fi pulp magazines, and BEMs).

And I do not mean to malign my ViewSonic 17EA, which has done yoeman service the past five years.

/Mr Lynn