Once upon a time this was a thing

Ah good. I needed to feel old today.

Or Flying Toasters, if you had a Mac.
https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/all/flying-toasters.html

And people would pay money for that shit.

Remember this well. One of its options was that you could select a saved image and have it repeatedly mapped onto the pipes' surface, even an NSFW one, lol. The beauty was that unless you knew what you were looking for, it looked like a random abstract pattern. And that's how you got an NSFW pic as your office screensaver.