Metal comes from the Metal found in machines.
Jack comes from audio jacks.
98 is a reference to the NEC PC-9800 series of 16/32 bit Japanese PCs.

Card Captor Sakura gotta be my favorite.
Followed by:
Serial Experiments Lain
Death Note
Initial D
Lucky Star
Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt
Ashita no Joe
Hajime no Ippo
Magic Knight Rayearth
GUNDAM SEED
Sword Art Online
DragonBall (original)
That one Final Fantasy 7 anime where Zack was still ...

I miss video games being finished products without any stupid extra crap to sell afterwards that adds nothing to the game other than cosmetics(Thanks Bethesda).
I miss video games that didn't need day 1 patches or other types of heavy dev work on a just-released game. I miss actual game expansion ...

I want color, nowadays everything is all muted colors or shades of grey or beige and it makes everything look so miserable. The clothes now are so bland compared to what they were in the 90s and 2000s and I hope that cool designs and vibrant colors come back!

If you don't mind me doing some late night ramblings probably a bit of both. Sure, some of this skewed rose tinted glasses from being a kid with not care in the world until like 2015. But there are somethings that feel different now.

There's this tendency toward simplistic and minimalist design ...

IMO the tech was superior. It wasn't all designed to to include a big funnel to aggregate and abscond with your personal data. It was possible to be anonymous because there weren't a buttload of content networks, free service providers, & other types of shady corporations (or the government) working ...

Spikelets, kandi, loom bands, rubber bracelets, robo dogs, usable cameras, teen friendly spaces (nephews are always stuck inside) and probably less cars. I have my reasoning for some of this but it can mostly be summerised as "all my friends have incredibly depressed younger siblings or i see kids ...

I like it because its more durable and efficient than the ones today, one pair of pants now lasts 2 weeks whereas the ones form when i was a wee nutcase i can still wear nowdays. Same goes for cameras (god dammit sony)


this is true. this is why i only buy used clothes from thrift stores if i ...

I haven't read through the whole thread yet but I wanted to add, god I want translucent housing on electronics please! Or hell color! I miss Neon Green cases for my desktop and laptops. Yes, I know the black, and silver, and the grey can look good (I do own a m2 macbookpro), But man I miss color in ...

I don't really know how to explain this feeling, but 2000s techs for me carry this idea of "tech is fun", an ideaful vision of a technological bright future but still in union with humanity, when brands dared to try a lot of differents tech design, some of them were not pratical or quite useless ...