Ok Own up who did this?

[DalekSec]

You actually had me fooled for a minute thinking there was a real bug behind my screen!!

 

 

The little black dot moves around like a bug, well played sir/madam

[elsiegee40]

That was @mark's avatar for years

[DalekSec]

That was @mark's avatar for years

 

Ahh that explains it... can't belive i fell for it!

 

It's been a long day....

[Andrew_C]

Years ago, on the Archimedes, there was a little programme that produced a family of cockroaches. They'd hide under open windows, and scurry off to new hiding places if their cover was moved or closed. Quite brilliant.

[azc]

Years ago, on the Archimedes, there was a little programme that produced a family of cockroaches. They'd hide under open windows, and scurry off to new hiding places if their cover was moved or closed. Quite brilliant.

 

There used to be a whole family of fun desktop widgets like that. There was a bouncing sheep, which for some reason had the name scmpoo.exe, and who remembers Bonzi Buddy? Plus of desk various other desktop companions in the form of ladies.

[unixman_again]

Are you sure it isn't a real live bug? I've had thrips inside the screen on my TFT monitor and there are still 4 or 5 dead ones in there. Strangely, I never experienced this in the CRT days, so I think they are attracted to a particular wavelength of light. Plenty of google hits show I'm not alone https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=thrips+monitor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=6rIcWIinI8Lhac_jk_AN

[DalekSec]

Are you sure it isn't a real live bug? I've had thrips inside the screen on my TFT monitor and there are still 4 or 5 dead ones in there. Strangely, I never experienced this in the CRT days, so I think they are attracted to a particular wavelength of light. Plenty of google hits show I'm not alone https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=thrips+monitor&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&gws_rd=cr&ei=6rIcWIinI8Lhac_jk_AN

 

As soon as i alt+tabbed out it went away, turns out it was someones avatar in the recent posts section of the homepage, fooled me up a kipper!

[rich_tech]

There used to be a whole family of fun desktop widgets like that. There was a bouncing sheep, which for some reason had the name scmpoo.exe, and who remembers Bonzi Buddy? Plus of desk various other desktop companions in the form of ladies.

 

remember the sheep that was quite amusing on windows 95, can't say I was a fan of the spyware filled bonzi buddy though here, though it did make me money removing it.

[Ephelyon]

Anyone remember the Flying Toasters?

[AJWhite1970]

I'll take your flying toasters and raise you with Jonny Castaway...

[Ephelyon]

Ermahgerd... o_O

 

Then again, for a less paid-for alternative*, there was always Starfield...

 

 

 

*yes, millennials, we used to pay for screensavers, because we were hardcore like that =]

[mikeprice]

I'll take your flying toasters and raise you with Jonny Castaway...

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Ooooo yeah - I worked in a large office when that came out

 

half the PCs were left alone all day to see what he would do - there were rumors of all sorts and we wanted to 'test them out'

[unixman_again]

Five years ago, I had Johnny Castaway on my XP machine and it ran a lot quicker - it would reach the end about once a fortnight.