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!
Translucent products had been around for a decade prior to those iMacs. If anything, they marked the beginning of the end for the trend.
I always thought it was a Nintendo thing first.
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.
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.
Well, you’re not wrong…
Most of it is in my balls now.
Microplastics are stored in the balls.
Now they’re technically not blanks 🙏
🎊
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
There is one thing In here not like the others…
That blue ps2 looks dope af
One of these is not like the others
Well if you don’t like black rectangle, you can have silver rectangle.
I’m 'bout to bust
RGB, plastic edition.
I like how they threw a 2DS into the pile of late 90s, early 2000s tech.
Initially I agreed, but actually I think it stands. The design is similar enough, regardless of era. Honestly, I really do wish this kind of design would come back
Fun factoid of the day: The Nintendo 2DS only actually has one screen. Go ahead, open one up, you’ll see…
fun followup of the day: a “factoid” is something that isn’t true, but is presented as being true. go ahead, look it up!
Funner follow-up: this definition is correct and true to the original usage of “factoid”, however, the alternative definition meaning “a small or minor fact” has been used often enough that it’s generally accepted, and appears in several dictionaries. Ain’t English grand!?
Sources:
inflammable means flammable?! what a country…
Interesting. I might research that on the toilet tonight, or just drop the word factoid from my vocabulary.
Regardless, clowns still have to go to college, while politicians do not. Fun fact of the day!
i wrote it on the toilet before bed, so that seems apt.
Black is beautiful 🖤
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.
Eventually all of these products found a place in our hearts.
And our brains, our kidneys and for some of us, our balls.
It just looks so… technological
I always go for the clear plastic replacement shells for my electronics. I got a Dreamcast with a chewed up shell that is now clear blue, did my GBA SP in a clear green a couple of years ago, and I’m looking into reshelling my Wii too now.
Later: We all have 8 different flavors of cancer from these
Did…did you eat your atomic purple N64?
We were all tempted. It’s okay.
It was just a nibble!
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