Is there anything in technology that can be described as a masterpiece?

>>52420232
>masterpiece

I'm so fucking triggered. Master has oppressive and racist connotations you stupid shitlord.

There's no timeless piece of technology, technology is persistently iterative.

Internet?

>>52420984
people like you are the reason those types of retards get any attention at all

>>52420232
LHC

Dell xps?

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SGI hardware

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>>52420232
Commodore 64

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>>52420232
Definitely these. Running 3 of these at once seemed to be sheer bliss.

The Antikythera mechanism.

>>52420232
the humble i5-2500k gets my vote.

Anything by Theo Jensen.

>>52421741
This desu senpai

>>52420232
Thermonuclear bombs

Not being edgy, watching nukes detonate is pure fucking beauty. The entire earth is the canvas, the nukes our brush, we make art in that utter annihilation.

>>52420232
Hubble
Cern
Concorde
Pagani Zonda
Enigma
+ 1000s more

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/g/3258
moto /g/
/g/entoo

According to what I've learn in classes, the Z80 processor.

>>52420232
If the marketing people say it, it is not.
>No Applefags.

>>52421820
Surely there are better ways than annihilating ecosystems for hundreds of years to make art. I don't think destroying life is artistic at all. :\ but then again, I am on the /g boards where there are mostly world/self hating intellectuals (usually) so this opinion isn't surprising.

Ibm model M keyboard

>>52421820

>not being edgy
>proceeds to be edgy

good post.

>>52427961
I don't know why you think there are any "intellectuals" here, its mostly idiots who think they're good at computers because they can install Linux.

The annihilation of life and ecosystems can be art, but the guy you're replying to doesn't make a good case for it.

Sage

GNU

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Q6600
Q9300
Most Pentium4s

Think Pad Clit Mouse

>>52420232
The pully system.
That is a masterpiece of invention, even as simple as it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=478hsrVjVQk
>literally on display in the museum of modern art

>>52420232
Ultima Online

>>52421679
I have to agree on this. Or early Atari with that wood finish

>>52420984
Retard

>>52431445
Congratulations on being so dense that you couldn't see the most obvious satire literally ever.

>>52431459
I knew it was obviously satire, but I still think you're a retard

Steam Controller.

the wheel
carbon fullerenes
levers
inclined planes
logic gates
the printing press
beer brewing
pendulum clocks
springwork watches
vaccines
plumbing

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Most SUN hardware.

>>52427987
Absolutely this. The quality on an IBM model M is insane, how many electronic devices can you name that were manufactured back in 198* and to this day are superior to many current day counterparts?

>>52433826
ERECTING DISPENSER

>>52432418
>inclined planes

>>52433194
most mechanical keyboards or any military input hardware. Bear in mind it was a peripheral for something that cost many thousands of dollars

>>52420232
no
technology is about function, so nothing is ever in a complete state so that it can be judged as a masterpiece

>>52433194
computer hardware was better made when computers were expensive and didn't need to cut that many corners to meet the needs of mass production

Plan 9

I would say the pulley system is an unquestionable technological masterpiece. It was invented over two thousand years ago, and we're still applying it today to our cranes and stuff. It is one of the technologies that built our world.

>>52420232
Fire

>Mech
Pulley
Printing press
Fly-wheel regulator
>Control
PID controller
Kalman filter
>CS
Fast inverse square root
Dijkstra's
C64
>Maths
Newton's books
sqrt(2) irrationality proof
Wiles' proof to fermat's last theorem
Moore-Penrose
>Biomech
Wolpert's paper(s) on motor control
>EE
Nauta's first paper
>Science
Boltzmann's equation
Einstein's 1917

Probably much more of them. Typical how /g/ pretty much immediately resorts to 'consumer technology products'