Archaeologic Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has shared the origin story behind the Windows 3D Pipes screensaver.… Readers of a particular vintage might remember staring at the maze of pipes ...

Are screensavers art? If they are, one of the most iconic Windows screensavers, 3D Pipes, only existed because of an internal Windows contest to show off OpenGL support to Windows NT. Chen’s ...

None were as captivating as Windows’ 3D pipes, which you can now enjoy in your browser with some welcome upgrades. Screensavers are now mostly a novelty, or a handy reminder that the computer ...

Worse still, the actual selection of screensavers on Windows leaves something to be desired. All-time classics like 3D Pipes, 3D Flower Box, and Flying Through Space have been ripped out of the OS ...

The iconic Windows screensavers, however ... One in particularly captured users’ attention, however—3D pipes, which constantly generated colorful networks of increasingly intricate tubes ...

Screensavers like 3D Pipes animated the display during inactivity ... implemented hardware-accelerated OpenGL for the upcoming Windows NT 3.5 release but had no way to showcase the advanced ...

In the past, Windows screensavers included '3D pipes' where pipes grow and grow, '3D flying objects' where objects fly around the screen, '3D mazes' where maze spaces expand, and '3D text' where a ...

The Flying Objects screensaver is one of the default screensavers included with Windows 95 and adds a touch of class to any fugly monitor. In its time the 3D Maze was a master class of design.

Screensavers ... corny, 3D graphics meant "the future," and flying toasters invaded our dreams. Enjoy! This video purports to include 281 individual After Dark modules for Windows.

isn’t putting a lot of effort into new screensavers—the ones available in Windows 11 have been there since Windows Vista, which came out in 2007. The iconic 3D maze and pipes screensavers are ...

3D Pipes. Another classic Windows screensaver. Except now you aren't stuck in one place watching these mysteriously replicating pipes; you're flying through them like Superman, using your head to ...