May 15, 2003

eye candy

/i:´ kand`ee/ n.

[from mainstream slang ear candy] A display of some sort that's presented to lusers to keep them distracted while the program performs necessary background tasks. Give 'em some eye candy while the back-end slurps that BLOB into core. Reported as mainstream usage among players of graphics-heavy computer games. We're also told this term is mainstream slang for soft pornography, but that sense does not appear to be live among hackers.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:49 AM

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