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thewayne(i.e. four decades ago)
What brought it to mind was a friend bought a new laptop that was giving him weird problems, and I showed him a program called Furmark that really stresses graphics cards and GPUs by drawing a super hi-res eyeball on your screen.
Back in the days of the original PC and PC-XT, I came upon a Dos program that drew a giant eyeball on the screen. It was slightly bloodshot, it would occasionally blink, and it would slowly and randomly scan back and forth across the screen, it was sort of a screen saver to prevent monitor burn-in as that was a real problem back then. This was around '86-'88, I was working for a pension plan/actuarial company doing database development.
I shared my office with the woman who did almost all the word processing for the company, I also did a lot of contract processing along with time keeping. Our office was kinda high-traffic. One day I left that eyeball program running when I went to lunch. I took a late lunch, around 3pm or so, as I worked 10-7. Normally I'd have a screen saver like flying toasters or whatever, or I'd turn the monitor off.si
I came back, and this guy who was fairly credulous came up and asked me about the giant eyeball. I told him it was a security program and that if anyone messed with my keyboard, it would take a picture of them.
And he bought it.
In the mid '80s. We didn't have web cams at that time. For that matter, we didn't have the world wide web at that time! Barely had the internet!
My alignment is chaotic silly, why do you ask?
What brought it to mind was a friend bought a new laptop that was giving him weird problems, and I showed him a program called Furmark that really stresses graphics cards and GPUs by drawing a super hi-res eyeball on your screen.
Back in the days of the original PC and PC-XT, I came upon a Dos program that drew a giant eyeball on the screen. It was slightly bloodshot, it would occasionally blink, and it would slowly and randomly scan back and forth across the screen, it was sort of a screen saver to prevent monitor burn-in as that was a real problem back then. This was around '86-'88, I was working for a pension plan/actuarial company doing database development.
I shared my office with the woman who did almost all the word processing for the company, I also did a lot of contract processing along with time keeping. Our office was kinda high-traffic. One day I left that eyeball program running when I went to lunch. I took a late lunch, around 3pm or so, as I worked 10-7. Normally I'd have a screen saver like flying toasters or whatever, or I'd turn the monitor off.si
I came back, and this guy who was fairly credulous came up and asked me about the giant eyeball. I told him it was a security program and that if anyone messed with my keyboard, it would take a picture of them.
And he bought it.
In the mid '80s. We didn't have web cams at that time. For that matter, we didn't have the world wide web at that time! Barely had the internet!
My alignment is chaotic silly, why do you ask?
