From: rich@example.invalid   
      
   Theo  wrote:   
   > Lawrence D’Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >> But then, I suppose most people had machines of the beige, bland,   
   >> Microsoft-compatible persuasion, so very likely products like this   
   >> do evoke feelings of nostalgia in such individuals.   
   >>   
   >> Are you able to explain such feelings to someone like me?  I’ll try   
   >> my best not to fall asleep ...   
   >   
   > I suppose they might look dull if you haven't been paying attention   
   > to case design over the last 10+ years, but the point is they're   
   > different to what currently exists in the market.  And for a lot of   
   > people who build PCs they're novel because they weren't born when   
   > this design was last in vogue.   
      
   Yup, yet another example of the point of the XKCD "Ten Thousand" comic:   
   https://xkcd.com/1053/   
      
   Those of us old enough to have had a great many "beige boxes" for   
   computers along the way can easily forget that there's a whole   
   generation that has never seen anything but the clear sided, rainbow   
   color flashing/rotating LED light cases.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)