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A display hack is a or otherwise). Famous display hacks include '' Munching Squares '' and '' Smoking Clover ''. Some display hacks can be also implemented by creating text files which contain numerous Escape Sequence s for a Text Terminal to interpret. A famous example on the VT100 terminal displayed a Christmas Tree , with twinkling lights and a Toy Train circling its base. The XScreenSaver software contains a large collection of X Window System and OpenGL display hacks. Display hacks have a history of several decades. Arguably the first display hack was a program called ''Bouncing Ball'' on the Whirlwind Computer in the early 1950s. The famous ''munching squares'' hack, on the other hand, originates in the PDP-1 computer in ca. 1962. '' Crack Intro s'', display hacks programmed by Software Crackers for the Home Computer s of the 1980s , evolved into what was to be known as '' Demos '' and '' Demo Effect s''. The creation of demos later became a subculture of its own, now known as the Demoscene . EXTERNAL LINKS
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