The iMac started this.
Gigapet : Am I a joke to you?
I definitely had a translucent tape player and clock radio in 1995.
I don’t know why, but translucent colored plastic gives me “cheap garbage” vibes. Probably because knock off memory cards and controllers for the PS1/PS2 used exactly that design.
There is one thing In here not like the others…
Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
Graphite iMac G3 is perfection.
Yeah. Love that round fucking mouse, and that computer with a space heating, ESD producing CRT crammed into the same chassis. Those things were fucking garbage.
Ok, fine, Graphite iMac G3 is perfection of form over function. That better?
Never actually had one, always wanted one. I did use the hockey puck mouse at school, and agree that it was fucking terrible. Can’t really speak to the esd issues from the CRT, didn’t use it often/long enough for that to affect me, though I can certainly see how it could have been a problem. Most computers are some level of space heaters, as far as that goes, especially if you’ve got a decent GPU, so I’m not sure I’d really knock it too much for that unless it was just really super egregious.
@Stamets I’ll admit it looks cool, but leaving your clear Gameboy out in the sun was a bad idea.
That blue ps2 looks dope af
Yes, from roughly 1997-2013 according to that image. In that one brief 16 year moment, it peaked.
One of these is not like the others
That translucent blue plastic becomes about the most absolute brittle shit over time. When they say plastic lasts hundreds if not thousands of years, translucent blue plastic missed that memo.
When they say it lasts, they don’t mean it stays in the exact same condition and shape.
Most of it is in my balls now.
Now they’re technically not blanks 🙏
🎊
Microplastics are stored in the balls.
Well, you’re not wrong…
Plastic lasts thousands of years, most of it lasts tens of thousands of years but blue plastic singlehandedly brings down the average.
Gold Plastic Syndrome has entered the chat
RGB, plastic edition.
Hot take… This trend was just a modern (at its time) reimagining of the TRUE peak of tech design: 80s era clear cases with brightly colored interior components.
For example: https://www.thisiswhyimbroke.com/retro-transparent-neon-phone/
Fun fact, you can relive the old days by going to prison and being on good behavior to get a transparent TV or radio/CD player in your cell very similar to this.
Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
Black is beautiful 🖤
The original iMac being the device that kicked off the colored, translucent plastic craze of the late 1990s and early 2000s.
There was a translucent George Foreman grill!
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.
Translucent George Foreman grill? For real?
Did it even have a power switch? Mine isn’t translucent, but my OG George Foreman grill does not even have a power switch, you literally gotta unplug that mofo if you don’t want your house to burn down.
