Originally, screensavers were created to prevent burning the image of the unattended desktop to CRT monitors. Now that we've progressed past that problem, scre

Originally, screensavers were created to prevent burning the image of the unattended desktop to CRT monitors. Now that we've progressed past that problem, screensavers don't serve any tangible purpose other than to waste electricity and look cool like you've said. I guess pro-screensaver people will argue you can have informative screensavers with things like the current weather, time, things like that.