As cool as they are to look at, screensavers have outlived their usefulness. Worse, they consume power while your PC is otherwise idle.

Testra, Australia's giant telecom, got the memo and they've done away with those 1990's relics. Green Daily informs:

Is this going to do anything? Testra thinks so. By removing 36,000 screensavers, they claim to cut 646 tons of CO2, which would be like removing 140 cars from Australian roads for one full year.

Turns out the crazy colors or bouncing graphics take about as much power as regular processing. It also turns out that many of today's newfangled monitors don't really burn and don't need this protection. Most screensavers are just trippy distractions when your bored.

Having those flashy graphics zipping around takes as much processing power as you actually doing work, so why bother having your computer wasting all that energy just to have that green Matrix code running down your screen (which, by the way, doesn't make you look like Neo and was only slightly cool eight years ago).

I've long ago set my systems to just turn the screen off after X number of minutes. You should too. But no harshing on the Matrix!