Why did beige technology go out of style?

Because beige eventually turned into piss yellow

People like colors

Because beige is the worst color
>muh nostalgia

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>>57010988
Why do you think so?

>>57010980
The current technology doesn't look very colorful to me either. Silver and black everywhere.

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>>57010975
Pretty much this. I also suspect it's got something to do with people not liking plastic materials anymore, especially for computer cases.

>this fucking captcha
>inb4 mobileposter
I need my fix of chan at all times.

>>57010966

Marketers wanted a drastic change from Computers 1.0 to 2.0

The only way they could show your mom and grandma computers were "cool" was to literally just change the color.

>beige is uncool and slow
>black is the future, now with high speed internet!

repeat ad infinitum

Black looks better

>>57011001
Because it looks like dirty white

>>57011054

1300

Its not hard to type.

>>57011080
But bright white is blinding.

When it gets slightly old it turns piss-yellow.

>>57011102

well shit 4chan strips emoji?

>>57011111
Get the fuck out

>>57011105
That's only the plastic parts

>>57011054
Paste a bike emoji

>>57011111
Nice quints.

They used a sort of off-white color plastic, but they put flame retardant chemicals in the plastic that over time turned the plastic yellow.

>>57011074
This desu

>>57011111
>Allowing emoji on 4chan

Its not like the shitposting isn't around the clock already, so let's add something to their arsenal.

Nice quints by the way cum dumpster

>>57011111
Yea ever since the emoji spam when it was discovered that it worked.

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>>57010966

>>57011054
1300 nigger

>>57010966
Because anything new in beige now automatically gets associated with old stuff.

It's actually harder to sell it.

when OEMs discovered that people like shiny things and decided to make everything glossy black with irritating blue LEDs

I'm about to make myself a new AMD setup (I've been using the same computer for 11 years, and recently, time has been catching up to it).

Think I'm gonna put it in my old cute beige case if it will fit.

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>>57011054
>he solves both

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>>57011399
People love the 90's beige shit now.

What probably won't ever come back is the early 00's beige+colors and whacky curves designs.

Aopen made some nice cases for a oem shit-kicker.

I would love to get a super old case and put in modern parts, a sleeper basically.

>>57011103
>can't handle the blinding light of freedom
commie detected

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>>57011557
I have a old as fuck tower.
Problem is, it's tall as fuck and had a proprietary power supply with different screw holes. I had to make a custom mounting plate just to make it work.
Just make sure everything fits.
Also, old cases also had shit airflow so keep that in mind.

>>57010966
Natural selection seems to see-saw between extremes due to innovations that remove disadvantages. A material that doesn't yellow or that's less shiny could make beige fashionable again.

>>57010966
Because it sucks.

>>57010966
I always thought it looks terrible, even when it was in style.

>>57011619
>Horizontal Wheelchair

>>57011001
Silver and black are gorgeous, especially matte silver on black glass. You huge fag.

>>57010975
Beige IS piss yellow.

What I find interesting is that it took over 30 years for PCs to loose the beige/white standard.

I think its Apples quirky crap and edgy gayming pcs that finally killed beige.

>>57011864
>edgy gaymen PCs
>tfw no minimalist black and red PC cases

>>57011111
:D

>>57010966
You guys got the second hand crap, when NEW it was WHITE!

>>57010966

Beige everything went out of style. All weird 90's colors (or non-colors) did, for tech and everything else.

My parents have never remodeled their kitchen built in 1989. The grayish-beige countertop color was popular then but looks like shit. The appliances were all white or beige but were slowly replaced one-by-one with black/silver and it looks much better.

Same with flooring. So much gross 90's off-white linoleum vanished overnight.

When people started watching movies on their PCs the bright plastic on the monitor became distracting.

>>57011931
^.^

>>57011105

That's only some plastic, my keyboard is from 1999 and it's still not yellowed.

>>57010966

new black don't show dirt as much and newer tech is made from cheaper plastic anyways.

old plastic is too expensive today

it's part of the ziganist conspiracy to end the beige race

>>57011518
>putting whatever for the second word still works
neat

>>57011518
i click until i get numbers

I bought a black frame Philips CRT and I hate it

not comfy at all :'(

my beige Trinitron was super comfy

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>>57011864
This. When the iMac came out, the press went nuts about it, normal people who'd never heard of Apple wanted one, and the company's trajectory turned around overnight. PC OEMs started to imitate pretty soon afterwards, first with colored stick-on case facades and then by throwing out beige entirely.

>>57010966
One reason might be that there is essentially no reason to replace your computer case if your use case doesnt change.
You suddenly say that the old case is old and unfashionable 90% of people will replace their case every time they make a major hardware upgrade.

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starting in the late '90s vendors started to get more adventurous, the iMac probably the most prominent example

coupled with the '70s and '80s office aesthetics that warranted beige in the first place fading away, it was inevitable that we would transition over to the similarly neutral silver and black of today

>>57012054
the '80s and '90s were really a horrible time aesthetically in general

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IMO there are no good looking cases anymore outside of some workstation towers.
SGI had it right circa 2000.

>>57011707
>matte silver
You mean grey.

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>>57011001
I'm waiting for the "embedded in keyboard" computer design to come back.

I'll be waiting a long time, but I am waiting.

>>57017162
>all of the shit cooling, gimped hardware, and lack of expansion that comes with owning a laptop
>with none of the portability
there's a reason that shit died, rose tinted glasses are a hell of a drug

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I remember when it was so cool to have a silver/black case - they weren't easy to find! I also remember desperately trying to find a good black/silver CRT monitor to match the case but ended up getting a white one because they just didn't have em...

I think the main reason desktop PCs are black now is that they've transitioned from being serious-business workplace machines to home entertainment systems. People who spend most money on desktops are often gamers who want their machines to look "bad ass" and the boring ol' beige with the turbo button doesn't just doesn't fit that aesthetic.

Beige is mostly a 90s thing so we might see some sort of revival soon. In the 80s there was a much clearer distinction between business and home PC's. If you look at the design for home computers like the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, Atari 800XL, Oric Atmos or the TI 99/4A, you'll see plenty of black and silver. Sometimes red, green and all sort of other colors.

>>57011001
What I really love about these older systems is the style of the keycaps, is there anyone who can make them in this older shape?

end phoneposting

>>57017275
Yes, main reason that design existed in the first place is because most people had TVs and spending money on a monitor to be used only with a computer was seen as pretty ridiculous.

>>57017407
this

black is much sleeker and better looking, because you can't go wrong with it. it will blend into any environment

i will admit though, the black, grey, and blue styles of the early 2000s were absolute dogshit though. it didn't look "good" until around 07-08ish

>>57012164
(g*_*)g . Q(^v^Q)

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>>57011159
I actually did it today out of curiosity


CAPTCHA got accepted

>>57010966
NEC still sells computers that look straight out of the nineties.

>>57017044
>IMO there are no good looking cases anymore outside of some workstation towers.
Tell me that new Corsair case doesn't remind you of the Octane.

>>57017684
Not big surprise, considering Japanese businesses are still living in the 90s with their using fax machines and mailing CDs to other offices... One can still buy audio cassettes from the store over there.

>>57017162
The future could hold some cyberdeck-looking PCs because of VR. In the meantime, you can put your Pi in a case from a1200net. There's also this guy that does it with C64 cases (retropc64).

>>57011356
You ever drank Baileys from a shoe? Wanna come to a club where people wee on each other? I'm gonna hurt you. I like you. What do you think of me?

>>57011619
>cleveland dustbuster

>>57010966
I think it had a lot to do with home users modding their cases and painting them and companies took note and stared manufacturing them to suit those users and it became the in thing

>>57017748
the last company literally just stopped making vhs players this year