Nagging Question: Where Did the Flying Toasters Go?
As John Eastman, the father of the flying toaster screen saver, tells the tale, he wandered into his kitchen late one night in 1989, saw a toaster, "and my fevered brain put wings on it. I sketched it, coded it, and had it running the next morning." That screen saver, part of Berkeley Systems' After Dark collection, was an instant hit. Regrettably, CD-ROMs got clobbered by the Net. Berkeley Systems was sold, and the new owners pulled the plug on After Dark in 1999. If you miss those plucky little appliances, though, don't despair. After Dark X was released in 2002. Too bad it's only for Mac OS X.
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