Well personally I've seen many people online talk about how the whole Frutiger Aero/Tech Optimism aesthetic was made specifically for corporations to draw the public's opinion away from set corporations' shady practises. If you think about it this way, perhaps it's better that the aesthetic is now ...

A fun chaotic internet, a weird sense of mystery and frontier on the internet, and of course FLIP PHONES (i know they still have them but FLIP PHONES.)
Theres other things heres a more weird and personal one.
When I was younger a lot of the shit I had, watched, and played with was old like in ~2017 ...

bluetooth idog. could you imagine
another thing i guess would be like. Background music in things. like scrolling through the nintendo eshop and it not sounding so desolate but instead something like the wii u eshop or the dsi shop. menu themes (NINTENDO I SWEAR TO GOD-)
i guess also prices from ...

People keep mentioning the phones. I strongly agree here, specifically their software/visual layout. I've been dying to get my hands on a functioning Sony Ericsson or what have you (I've unsuccessfully tried multiple times to revive the one that was given to me as a kid, which I did nothing with but ...

Belaneura wrote: Tue Dec 23, 2025 4:08 pm

People keep mentioning the phones.

ahh, dumbphones. i’ve been eying switching to one, but i don’t know which one is the best to get

People keep mentioning the phones. I strongly agree here, specifically their software/visual layout. I've been dying to get my hands on a functioning Sony Ericsson or what have you (I've unsuccessfully tried multiple times to revive the one that was given to me as a kid, which I did nothing with ...

People keep mentioning the phones. I strongly agree here, specifically their software/visual layout. I've been dying to get my hands on a functioning Sony Ericsson or what have you (I've unsuccessfully tried multiple times to revive the one that was given to me as a kid, which I did nothing with ...

<div class="message"><font face="trebuchet ms">It's... <i>fine</i>. What gets in the way of it being a truly appealing aesthetic is the fact that you either go all the way with a 3D feel and zero colors, or else you give it color and make it flat again. If they could find a way to make it colorful ...

<div class="message">I honestly preferred iOS before the Liquid Glass update, all the icons were very readable. On Liquid Glass, the transparent mode on the app icons is an absolute nightmare, and the dark mode icons looks ass (just my opinion). What I DO find very cool however is how they managed ...