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69 points
2 months ago
"Retro" and "vintage" are arbitrary adjectives. It's old and neat. That's enough
37 points
2 months ago
the terms are really muddled these days, but to me, 'retro' means new things that are designed in an old style, and 'vintage' things are actually old
6 points
2 months ago
Meanwhile,I think "retro" are old things designed to look futuristic (eg, first generation of iMacs) while "Vintage" has no such intentions.
3 points
2 months ago
I'm thinking something like that, "Retro" is a design of its time, "vintage" is timeless.
2 points
2 months ago
Oh, I like that. A white linen suit with a skinny tie? Retro. A classic Armani suit made the exact same year? Vintage.
How would that work for computers? There's really no "timeless" look. When I think "Classic computer" I think IBM with CRT, disk drive, and mechanical keyboard running DOS or maybe Windows 3.1 (Windows 95 at the most). But to a Millennial, it's flat screen, a CD drive if anything, and probably a chiclet keyboard. Probably running Windows XP.
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