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This was my favorite iMac design.

For a (somewhat) short period of time, school/college computer labs were awesome to walk into. It was fun seeing tons of multi colored G3's.

I was in nearly the sweet spot for this in school computer labs as a kid so it felt like a long time to me. They only started to get boring looking when I graduated from high school.

Conveniently color-coded so you could tell at a glance which were the older crappier ones!

At my school they all had Netscape navigator. So slow.

We called it nutscrape

Me too https://www.leisuretown.com/library/qac/25.html

Okay, but we were like 11 years old, so I don't think you got me there

I'm not trying to “get” anybody? I did it too lol

I'm kinda split between it and the original G3 range (slot loading preferably, but in the original bright transparent colours before it got weird with stuff like "blue Dalmatian"). The anglepoise Mac is kinda near beginning of the rather sterile Apple aesthetic that has never gone away, but it's also incredibly neat in a packaging sense that a CRT could never be. I kinda want a combination, but I'm not sure if you could get away with the colour bits on an all-in-one without the large area needed for the CRT neck...

The Blue and White PowerMac G3 is my ultimate best looking Mac, there's something about the giant G3 on the sides, and the bold colours for what is a "professional" system. Sadly it all got toned down for the G4...

The G3 were cool in a different way. I miss the playful coloring of late 90s devices. Computers grew up but did we also need our game consoles to become soulless rip offs of Apple industrial design?

Edit: I want a translucent atomic purple phone damnit!

It was late 90s / early 2000s specifically, right? N64 was colorful, GameCube a bit less, but not the SNES, Genesis, NES, etc. Kinda the same with the Mac GUIs.

Yea I'd say like 95 until 2001ish. Then everything got serious.

Yeah, I have two of the G4's and while they are really nice, I'd love a PowerMac G3 sometime. I have G5's as well, and again they are cool, but not in the way the G3 was -- just so striking and IMO creativity-inspiring.

As a owner of both slot load and tray load G3's, I strongly prefer the tray loaders. The drives still work, while I have to jam a credit card with double-sided tape into the drive to get a disc out of the slot load drive.

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