The Evolution of PC Cases

PC cases didn't start off with tempered glass, textured front grills, built-in cable management, and magnetic filters. They were originally in beige boxes meant to help fit office spaces. Linus shows you how things progressed over the decades!

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[KlockworcX]

This warrants a full LTT video, not a quickie. So much missed on such a great topic.

[anonymo]

I’m surprised there was no specific mention of the shift to towers in the 90s.

[morgan]

Wonder if Dell warranties back in the day were beige.

[Xjere]

The early 2000s, the dark days of modding, cutting our own windows, and installing cathodes tubes meant for cars, hoping the inverter wouldn't fry. A lot of modern design stemmed from those days. We apologize for RGB; we thought you would only use it for one color at a time.

[sleepdeep]

I love the G5. Absolutely TIMELESS. Something that legitimately didn't age a day.

[Michael-zfko]

I still miss the front drive bays. Even if you don't use disks, it was still neat to be able to expand your front I/O or have a fan controller with instant access.

[karlssus]

1:10 kinda tells a bit more of the story of beige boxes, at least in the 90s they were usually more of an off white, but the plastics used were easily discoloured by uv light, so in offices with strip lighting they typically went beige very quickly, which is why older hardware can be a weird mix of shades of beige, depending on the environment they've been in

[unvergebeneid]

It annoys me to no end that most modern cases don't even have a single external drive bay anymore. I'm already fine with squeezing my optical drive and my card reader into the same bay but give me at least _one!_

[capybaravangogh]

I currently cant sleep peacefully because I suddenly experienced of sudden bad memories hitting like its the end of the world. Good thing Linus just posted his new tech video and had removed right away my stress. Nothing is better satisfying than what you really love.

[insane_troll]

3:50 - They also started removing NECESSARY features from cases, so you can't put in a Blu-ray drive any more.

[bradswim]

I want more "history of" videos - this is my kool aid jammer

[Flytrap]

When I started at Dell, they were using the Klinger chassis, which was a PITA to open, especally when we were trying to get customers to reseat their video cards, which came loose a lot.

[patrickgoodhart]

Beige really came in because white things didn't stay white in an office where smokers were lighting up. By making them beige it didn't look dirty/yellowed in a short time. They had tried black earlier particularly on keyboards - but they showed "grease" from fingertips. Most of this was figured out not on PCs but on telephones and typewriters.

[mohammedanas]

linus: leave a like, or dislike depending on how you felt-
107 people: and I took that personally

[paulraider]

A minor correction: The writable CD is what killed the floppy disc. Flash drives were a few years behind burning cheap CD's.

[notfunny]

The first computer case was actually mixture of human skin and cloth.

The words "Computer" used to refer to people who did mathematical equations.

[hadley]

Now you can get PCs built into the monitor lmao wow

[bepbep]

RGB LEDs evolved from Cold Cathode lighting ("Neon") back in the day.

[Aelfraed]

I was expecting this to be a lot more in depth, but then again, this channel is called Techquickie

[srikard]

Dark mode in video background, so good and soothing to eyes.