Berkeley Systems, Inc. was founded in 1987 by the husband-and-wife team of Wes Boyd and Joan Blades to create handicapped access software for the Macintosh. Soon after, their friend Jack Eastman suggested the idea of a modular screensaver as an alternative to the plethora of single-display screensavers then popular. Making a modular screensaver meant providing some modules, so they made a handful of them, including the rather odd concept of the Flying Toasters. Sales of After Dark rapidly swamped the original Access Software, and the company achieved iconic status in the Macintosh community. The company took on some venture capital and began a growth phase. The company also pursued and acquired the license for a module pack based on Star Trek. That pack was so successful that the franchise was expanded, acquiring other major licenses, though by 1995, the future for Berkeley Systems was beginning to look very bleak. Most of the “A list” licenses had been done or the licensors had commissioned work elsewhere. After Dark for DOS, a product that could have sold like wildfire in 1992, was finally produced just weeks before Windows 95 put the nail in DOS’s coffin. The market for pricey, artistic, and highly animated screensavers was cannibalized by cheap slideshow products. Attempts to find new products that would fit the quirky “utilitainment” niche of After Dark had come to rocky ends and the rest is, as they say, history.