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Pinball machines are my favorite. Bonus points if it's pre-digital scoreboards and had those fantastic metal kickplates.
Tech you miss/ new tech trends you hate - ok boomers
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Yes, models like GPT-3 can be used to generate realistic looking text but if many articles looked very similar then what you're talking about might just be as simple as Markov chains.
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I like how Yahoo! Japan still kind of looks like Yahoo! did around 20 years ago. Even the logo is just like the old one.
Meanwhile Yahoo! is this hipster-looking "Current Year" thing.
Meanwhile Yahoo! is this hipster-looking "Current Year" thing.
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Oooh hoo hoo hoo, I don't even remember old Yahoo, and that website layout made me coom
speaking of which, why is flat design/minimalist web layouts so common these days compared to the more stylized designs of long ago?
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[old archive of American Yahoo! from 20 years ago]
No idea why flat minimalism is so popular in the West now.
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Back in 2013 Apple changed their design language from skeuomorphism to minimalism with iOS 7 and it seems everyone else followed suit.
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Back when "fruity" iMacs were a trend, electronics manufacturers copied that "transparent in different colors" look. Even Nintendo made a line of differently colored transparent N64s.
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Ah, the 90s, when everything that could be made clear, was made clear. Clear calculators. Clear telephones. Clear Game Boys. Clear Pepsi...
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It's a trend I don't really mind.
I think a big electronics trend before that was stuff being "black and curvy" (like the Sega Genesis / Mega Drive).
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Early 2010's is when soys started taking over the tech industry, as well as graphic designers having to justify being on the payroll by making needless retarded changes, happened to every popular website like youtube, google, etc.
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I believe there's no actual corporate linkage between Yahoo Japan and its American counterpart, they just licensed the name. That's why it hasn't completely gone to hell.
In fact, YJ's auction site still rules the roost in Japan - I don't think eBay even exists there.
Apart from the soy, which is definitely a large part of it, I think the rise of small screens on phones in all different sizes tended to put minimalist pressure on design. The less design there is, the easier it is to adapt on-the-fly to different or changing resolutions.
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Yahoo! Japan Geocities was up longer than Yahoo! Geocities too.
Smartphones weren't exactly a good idea. A big example of this soy hipster minimalist look is the new Peter Piper Pizza logo.
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Yup and I have mentioned in another thread watching one freak out and spamming the same story slightly rewritten to the point that it started taking over my google news feed. The most obvious area I've seen is real estate sales where the information is simple: what kind of house, when was it built, price, size, where, rooms, area, is there anything significant nearby(short blurb about that) and some filler text to link all of that together.
A flood of useless press releases that tries to catch peoples eyes with bespoke hooks for 1,000 cities/towns/villages/truckstops is another very blatant one I've seen.
So far they seem to do a lot of "shit work I don't want to do" type of tasks.
We can only hope someone figures out how to give them the Tay training or that they degenerate into this:
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I just don't understand why black text on a white background with a few pictures burns through several gigs of ram. You turn of javascript and you get a better website. My local news site runs better in fucking Dillo than Firefox.
N64 was peak 90s black and curvy.
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A new tech trend I dislike is images being given seemingly random long hexadecimal codes for filenames, instead of real names.
(like "b35caf45632e597897f974ddf.jpg" instead of "beach.jpg")
(like "b35caf45632e597897f974ddf.jpg" instead of "beach.jpg")
With that and the later color ones, N64 is a peak 90s thing.
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Microsoft is making the Win10 start menu easier to use in this new update! Can YOU figure out what they've done?
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looks like they're trying to copy the neumorphic design from apple's new mac os with those icons
what a lame update, i dont know why software companies, other than because of apple, they moved away from skeuomorphism when they really shouldn't have
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Anything but the "white" ABS plastic is fine with me. I put white in quotation marks because anything from that era is now yellow as a slice of cheese unless you've retrobrighted it back to its original color.
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The hilarious part is that since then, Apple hasn't "pioneered" (read: "done a better job of selling than the original creators") jack shit. We're at the point now where even Apple is chasing year >=2013 Apple's coat tails, and everybody else just keeps following them.
We're in a feedback loop of early 2010s hipster garbage design, and all of the best parts of earlier design that kept those designs working have been slowly axed in favor of gimmicks to sell new widgets and keep stock prices from cratering.
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I like that consoles come with built in with hard drives and memory with optical support for external hard drives. Microsoft in particular was stingy with that with the Xbox 360. Specialized hard drives and memory cards you had to buy. Especially since that some SKUs came with little or no memory (Arcade, Core.)
However, once you account for the UI, you're left with a finite amount of space. Back in 2016-2017, a launch PS4/Xbox One with 500GB could fit a few games on there before you'd have to invest in extra space.
Now, games are getting ridiculously large even before updates and DLC to where one game could take up half the default space. Modern Warfare and Red Dead Redemption II are obvious examples of that.
Even 1TB likely won't last half a console's lifecycle now.
I remember during the PS2 days, a couple 8MB memory cards could last you for dozens of titles. Now 1TB is barely enough for games.