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Aug 23, 2023 9:56 PM
MushroomSnail
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siflandollysiflandollyshowROCK
This makes my back hurt
BattyLuna
Millennials hell! I had to check it out. As a late Gen Xer this was for the Upper Class, we couldn't afford this, never saw it.
trayal
The hockey puck mouse those things shipped with made me feel old when they were brand new...
bigelb0wski
As much as the mouse sucked, the keyboard was great. I still use mine.
hendawg2020
BigIdeas
I saw a boxed copy of Windows 95 on display in the Edo Tokyo museum in Asakusa. I feel the pain.
Cranbananarama
Seems fair. I totally vote for having each generation of tech in some form of museum. Plus, transparent tech is rad and should return.
Feanordidnothingwrong3000
It reminds me of the time my family went to the Smithsonian and saw the exact camera my dad was currently holding in one of the exhibits
woozle
scuba7jb
BanditKablooie
I used to sell those when I was in college. Time to go put some Bengay on my shoulders.
algavinn
This makes me rationally angry.
mikenco
G4.. I used to use one of those.. fuck
Goblor
When I was 10 I peaked my "girlfriends" dad had a room of 4 of these,and we'd play diabolo 2 was nice
MrFancyPanzer
Man i remember seeing these at my dad's job.
Housemaster
PineappleLoopsBroether
spiceass9000
That’s not even that old man. I know time has passed but fuck it’s what 20 years old?…. Shit
MonsoonPoultryHospital
I work in a museum. It is legitimately hard to ‘actively collect’ modern material culture because people don’t think it’s significant. But it will be, and then we won’t have it.
TalaayaCosplay
My mom saved everything including software boxes and even manuals. Worthless things that no one keeps which is exactly what I love about it.
Loahnoak
I miss playing the OG Marathon in my schools computer lab after school on those
daverbeans
The files are in the computer! It’s so simple!
AtlasFutureOverthrowsAmerica
*reference_gif*
MeasuredByFive
Got one upstairs.
69thStPepper
Those things were only good for showing off to guests anyway. If you wanted to run any actual software, you had to boot up a PC
TotallyNotVillain
Truth!
taksoto
It's Iowa, so it's a Museum of the Future.
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_computer
TheOnlyPtylerdactyl
There are a lot of opportunities to make fun of Iowa (especially with the current idiots in charge) but their tech ain't it
bondance
A few weeks ago I read an article about Zoomers beginning to feel old because they don’t understand “Gen-Alpha” memes about people popping out of toilets(?), “skibidi toilet.” The realization that Gen-Z aren’t the kids anymore really drove my Millennial age home for me, and born in ‘84 I barely even qualify. T_T
Default87
Those stupid hockey puck mice were the worst.
customcartoons
You just brought back a memory I was sure I had forgotten!
ScrippyChan
Yes. Goddamnit fuck those idiotic things.
Ghlargh
Their whole concept of single button mice was horrible, they still kept it up when everyone else had 3 button scroll mice.
Raikupath
It's apple, they stand for wanna be high end redesigns of things that don't need a redesign. Gotta lie to the customer somehow about being innovative pioneers while not being innovative at all. Luckily EU slapped them hard and told them to sit the fuck down and install USB C ports.
supermario182
I have one, the highest it can run is OSX 10.4 Tiger
PhantomPhotoSesh5
Time to take that ibuprofen for your back pains, if you relate.
charondaboatman
wadenelson
/gallery/TvfqlND
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Sleepy360
DSREX
They still had these in my RadioShack in the Navy when I was in, largely unused but there was a time when they had a dozen running 24x7
Anonaru
MotherfuckingJesseEisenburg
I'm not sure if that's a typewriter or a teletype machine.
charondaboatman
Yes.
adamsonpaul5772
Same
GlenL
So . . .what was Jesus like, you know, in person?
umbrellamaker
It looks loud
ProxyPlayerHD
the punch tape reader on the left of that thing sounds like a machine gun: https://youtu.be/qv5b1Xowxdk?si=SoaVea88c78XKx_g&t=248
alphaseltzer23
Fascinating video. Hard to believe the high tech things we use now will some day be looked at the same way we look at that machine
RVAALLDAY
I would rather die than watch that again tbh
alphaseltzer23
I could fall asleep to that clip on loop
Ambipolar
It doesn't hit so bad, they were obsolete pretty much before anyone saw one.
Here4daCats
Lol a couple of US Senate offices had them as well
Citizen0
"obsolete pretty"...
NoahFoxGiven
The iMac G3 came out in 1998, the iMac G4 flat panel didn’t come out until 2001…
SqueezitTheClown
G4 Cube is my Apple nostalgia of choice
NoahFoxGiven
The good ol’ iLamp!
Gaelwyn
My family had an Apple 2c for my entire childhood. We had some pretty cool games for it.
Beelsebooob
Not really - the original G3 ones were very fast compared to the Intel machines at the time. The G4 really fell behind though.
thomerow
The Power Mac G5 however was a beast
Ghlargh
The Imac G3? I know the Powermac G3 was a monster but the Imac never seemed that fast.
Beelsebooob
The G3 CPU was 2-3 times faster than the Pentium 2 clock for clock. The PowerMac ofc was even more powerful, but the iMac was still a very fast computer at the time. As I said though, by the time the G4 rolled around, the Pentium 3 was very respectable in terms of performance per clock, and scaled much much better than it.
TheLunaDiviner
try telling that to every middle school computer lab across the US
somnif
They still had a few in a couple computer labs at University of Arizona circa 2013. They were awful.
Eldibs
Nah brah, when I was in middle school we were playing DOS games in computer lab. In high school somehow our Computer Maintenance classroom got fifteen PCs with GeForce 2s in them. Obsolete at the time, but amazing for school PCs.
KuldFyt
Surely you can't be implying that we would make poor investment decisions for our education system...
itsallaboutthecones
Well government IT procurement processes are not always the most logical.
BonafideHomicide
My middle school from 97 to 00 and high school to 04 never had anything that nice
TotallyNotVillain
Being subjected to those plastic pieces of shit through elementary and middle school is a big reason why I will never buy an Apple computer. The OS was stupid and illogical (still is), they were unstable and prone to crashing (which would cause you to lose everything), and files were often incompatible with Windows computers. Ugh.
tsuyoshikentsu
And remember the fucking mouse?
PajamaStripes
Fuck kind of middle school had iMacs? Our district had kids using floppy discs until 2010.
McJersey
mikeatike
The same ones installing new Apple ][ in 1988 and then replacing them with equally out of date macs in 1996?
astrangehop
Mmmm. Mouse practice
McJersey
Sounds about right... lol
JohnnyLawlessEsq
I agree with @TotallyNotVillain. Those things being in EVERY single computer lab when I was in middle and high school is what made me hate Apple. In retrospect, the hockey puck mouse is charmingly cute, but what asshole decided that was a usable, functional idea? And with a 12-inch cord, too! I don't care that it plugged into the keyboard, it's still too goddamn short!
ward5x5
I have a steelseries keyboard that was a USB hub and two ports built in, it still needs 2 USB ports on the machine it's plugged into. You still want the keyboard to have a seperate connector independant of a built in USB hub.
tsuyoshikentsu
Hot take, though: keyboards with USB ports are a good idea and I'm baffled why no one else has done it.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
I don't disagree. It's a pretty boss feature.
riplikash
Pretty much every Kerouac keyboard I've owned for the past ten years has had that feature. It's pretty universal.
StenYngve
There are plenty of such devises. Both my brothers have gaming keyboards that are wireless yet with their own USB ports.
JohnnyLawlessEsq
What model?
RAJrios
Yeah, just because you operate in a circle where people haven't spent money on the feature does not mean they aren't available at every single electronics store; I've been using a cheap Logitech keyboard with 2 USB ports for over a decade.
cpcgamer
I miss the days of translucent neon plastic. We should make more things out of that.
BellerophonM
Especially Nintendoes.
bondance
My translucent-purple Gameboy Color still works!
DeltaBladeX
3RsReadingRitingRithmatic
Sent this to a friend, "Atomic purple was pretty badass tho"
Boatsntoes
Your cellphone would be a pinky sized PCB and all battery. Not very fun like an old analogue telephone.
freakdiablo
Hell I had a translucent GameBoy Color. I remember looking at the internal circuitry and all the chips and thinking, "wow, I can get into this." Took a bunch of tech electives in high school, got a Comp Engineering degree, and now I'm doing the enlightening job of...checking transformer serial numbers and yelling at my techs to lock the damn roadside cabinets.
ArdentNature
Only a couple more years and you'll be saying "I miss days.".
servingmytimeinusersub
I mean they arent generally colored, but all the electronics in prisons are clear.
q2grapple
They can make my hip replacement out of it so you can watch it work!
JustAnotherCynicToo
Someone suggested car bodies, but I feel it's impractical. Any scuff, scratch, stain, whatever, inside and out... more a for-show car. And before anyone makes the assumption that I'm a terrible driver because I'm worried about scuffs and scratches on a nice car, other people exist and also drive.
TherapistHere
Coffins would be cool. Our microplastics in our gut could return to its maker.
ionlyregisteredtosavelinks
It'll come back eventually.
Jackrackham86
Hey, in the Matrix, they did say that 1999 was the peak of human civilization right? I'm starting to believe it.
KinetoPlay
Ayn Odin 2, coming out soon, has two different translucent plastic shell options. A neat purple and a blue I want way more than I should.
Corvidqueen
I miss it also. My first phone was a Nokia and I went to a booth in the mall that sold phone stuff and got a neon lemon colored phone cover and a set of new buttons. Modern phones haven't got anything on customization.
hotaru251
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_craze
neonoptic
I feel like I'm the only one who hates the see through plastic stuff on electronics from the 2000s. It looks hideous on everything.
Sprucelake
You're not alone, see-through plastic looks very cheap.
SandwichRGood
>:(
Rockafella83
Pacifistmonkey
You can mod your steamdeck with it now! So at least someone out there cares as much as us about it.
Groose
Man just reading you say that brought back memories
secretdpp
Mad Cat controllers
ICampOntheFirstDate
Translucent colored plastics are my primary material of choice when 3d printing parts. Partly because it's fun, but mostly because it's cheap.
ensensu
So you could 3D print a computer? Can it run Doom?
Ryebread91
Bitch please, the damn 3d printer could run doom.
eepsies
I'm curious, why is it cheap?
ICampOntheFirstDate
Coincidence. It's what the cheap brands are offering at the minute.
eepsies
Ah, got it. I really couldn't think of any reason why it might be. Thanks!
Darkside531
Do you remember the clear plastic phones with all the brightly-colored components in them? I always wanted one of those.
mercbrit
Buy one then. They are still about on ebay.
suckstoyourauntie
Yes! Swatch phone! My sister and I had one. The bottom part was also a second receiver, so we could both talk to our friend (or a boy!!!) at the same time. Fun stuff.
meltedfaceguy
I know the exact phone. I had one found at a garage sale, worked great, but haven’t had a landline in years now. No clue where the phone went
ApolloSierra
I miss them too, I loved being able to see the insides of my electronics.
Samidk
That's what the glass panel rgb pc crowd is all about and yet they get so much hate sometimes
funnystoryaboutthat
Gameboy color
DarkBusterBaron
You can probably order a clear case online I know they atleast have them for Steam Deck and Switch I don't know for certain but they probably have them for every console.
darkninja2992
They're 3rd party but they still exist. There's even such casing for modern stuff like the Nintendo switch
ProphetofEntropy
they make electronics with clear plastic cases, for prisoners to buy. but yea, in the 90s i had a radio/cassette player with a clear case.
DankVoodoo
Aren't we all prisoners in this hellscape we call society.
CaptainBergatron
That N64 controller. You know the one.
AstronautChicken
I got one the exact same color as the pictured computer in my closet.
jayhaJapeLord
Mmmmmmmm atomic purple.
VictusVonGuyver
That's pretty much the only thing with translucent materials these days. Gamepads and retro handheld emulation... Well not counting prison electronics.
BurningVeryImportantThings
Puberty in the 90s was equal parts weird and wild