Frutiger Aero and Y2K Futurism Appreciation Thread - When the future looked bright and optimistic, before the world turned gay and retarded.

[Beyerdynamic DT 700 Pro X]

Man I fucking love these 90s early 3D renders, early works by Ryan Bliss aka Digital Blasphemy are some of my favorites.

 

[Adolf Kitler]

Here's some Y2K autism that i ABSOLUTELY love and some that i remember from when i was a kid:

Spoiler: WARNING: LONG

Spoiler: A little sperging about this aesthetic

For a long time, I have had a great fascination with the futuristic aesthetics of the late 90s / early 2000s and others like it. As a child, I remember having seen and consuming several pieces of media with this style and I always believed that it was something beautiful and inspiring. Years later when many people on the internet began to remember it and give it more attention, I was very excited, knowing that I was not the only one who loved it, but little by little I began to realize that it was being colonized by autistic genderspecial zoomers who were also beginning to use it to put their tumblr sjw shit on it that had nothing to do with the views of that era, that made me feel very sad.

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

I would call it Corporate New Age since it's an extension of 70s New Age aesthetics and general utopian futurism, now just showcasing the new heckin futuristic 3D technology! and a more minimal presentation. To play with the New Age theme, you could say the extensive water motif denotes the coming of a new age (Y2K-Aquarius) - a rebirth from the primeval waters and a baptism into the Globo Homo sponsored New Age of Aquarius.

Some works i like

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Visuals that fits the music
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Shirow Masamune's art is peak kino

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

 

[Lovely Kin]

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

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These metallic snots are cool

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

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I remember my HTC Dream! Legit it felt absolutely futuristic, hell even compared to today's boring slab phones!

I really need to figure out how to rice LineageOS so it looks like old ass builds of android, I love the old app icons and skeumorphism of that era.

Any of you guys familiar with doing that? It'd be pretty neat tbh

 

[BABANGUIDE64]

I remember my HTC Dream! Legit it felt absolutely futuristic, hell even compared to today's boring slab phones!

I really need to figure out how to rice LineageOS so it looks like old ass builds of android, I love the old app icons and skeumorphism of that era.

Any of you guys familiar with doing that? It'd be pretty neat tbh

How far can LineageOS be riced or debloated? It looks like it's still as lame and gay as modern Android is, even if ungoogled

 

[Overwritten Tapes]

Some more Y2K for the road.

Spoiler: Huge image dump (again)

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The Menthol ad is my favorite photo here. It's existence is almost aggressively stupid. Trying to sell a plain cigarette with the most over-the-top "futuristic" sheen you could think of. It's almost adorable in how earnest it is about being desperate.

My cousin and I had that exact Compaq. I kept it until like 2019. I had it upgraded after a while, my boss did it for me for free.

 

[Rekeita's Kidneys]

How far can LineageOS be riced or debloated? It looks like it's still as lame and gay as modern Android is, even if ungoogled

Well, it's very very barebones and ships with basic apps that *just work*.

I've been on it for years at this point lol, vanilla Android's stock google apps are so fucking slow

 

[888Flux]

currently learning Macromedia Flash 8 to make an animated flash site like the 2Advanced one


the capital I Internet use to be stuff like this:

 

[Cascade]

My next OS after Windows 95/98 (can't remember exactly) was Vista. The difference in visuals just blew my mind. I think I spent hours just clicking on random buttons to make them glow, watching the background blurs behind transparent parts, and so on. I was mesmerized, it seemed almost magic to me.

I care less about microplastic than I do about modern plastic interfaces, please bring back that glass and metal feeling. Apple's Liquid Glass is okayish (not glossy enough for my taste), but since they're still setting the trend, this is a big step in a good direction.

 

[Cedric_Eff]

currently learning Macromedia Flash 8 to make an animated flash site like the 2Advanced one
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the capital I Internet use to be stuff like this:
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Back when the cyberspace aesthetic was hot.

 

[NoodleFucker3000]

I found this yarn and it felt like fruitger aero but a yarn,plus it had that same eyelash fuzzy texture that infested the 2000s.

 

[Cascade]

I found this yarn and it felt like fruitger aero but a yarn,plus it had that same eyelash fuzzy texture that infested the 2000s. View attachment 7627393

Clear glass/acrylic beads as decorations would go great with this.

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

I believe that the 3DS and the Vita menu UI's were the peak of this design language:




Such a shame that the world did end in 2012

 

[Orphaned Punk]

Here is a video of someone hunting down an anime Y2K Futurism design he found plastered on the side of a Wii.

 

[888Flux]

Here is a video of someone hunting down an anime Y2K Futurism design he found plastered on the side of a Wii.

loved that video and nice design. they use to put stuff like that on graphics cards during the early 2000s