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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This used to be IT in the early 2000s

Beige as far as the eye could see (in a data centre)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

I'm waiting for it come back in to style. I've pitched getting beige racks with this on the side https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_(design)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Were we still using 3.5” floppies in the early 2000s?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

Oh yes, I was using a 3.5" floppy disk drive with a USB connector in 2007 to kick off imaging on desktop machines as no one could get the ghost boot server working.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think it was so ugly it was beautiful.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago

There is also this particular tone of light brownish green which is on so many industrial tools like drill presses, table top saws and so on. I kinda dig it

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah, I came here to air my hypothesis that lab hardware trends lag behind consumer computers by about 25-30 years.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

So it's almost time for teal, orange et other fun colors, mixed with translucent plastic lab équipement?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

In 5 years hardcore researchers will be modding their lab equipment and installing plexiglass glass sides. Just like I did to my PC in 1999-2000ish

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you saying there used to be woodgrain lab hardware?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

There definitely was. I've seen it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Nowadays it's a lot more of dark mode, which is a shame (especially since our software still doesn't have it)