Las Vegas Sphere launches Flying Toaster Screensaver after 15 minutes of inactivity

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Earlier this evening, the world famous "Las Vegas Sphere" -- which features a 580,000 square foot external display -- appeared to go into "screensaver mode" when it began displaying a series of flying toasters.

"Someone forgot to jiggle the mouse. Looking at you, Wayne," stated the head of IT for the Sphere, speaking to The Lunduke Journal.

Representatives from the Las Vegas Sphere also confirmed that the specific screensaver, which was set to launch after 15 minutes of inactivity, was provided by After Dark version 3.2 running on top off Windows 3.1.

"3.11, actually," clarified the IT head. "Windows for Workgroups. It's better than 3.1 in a lot of ways. We also installed WinG and Win32s. It's pretty sweet. We might change the screensaver to something else in the future. Maybe Warp. Maybe Daredevil Dan. Hard to say. We've got a lot of options."

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