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Some macro-trends that must have contributed:

* Rise of social media

* Popularity of short-form video

* Significant deceleration in single-core performance gains

* Focus on fashion (e.g. colored LEDs) over performance in computers

* Popularity of smartphones/consoles



>Focus on fashion

People have been tricking out their rigs with fancy lighting since the beginning, it's not a new development.


Definitely not new, but a lot more prevalent now. Photos from early 2000s LAN parties are dominated by beige boxes.


Exactly: it was a lot less common to customise your case when it required a drill and a Dremel saw.


I assume it is because DIY PCs plateaued two decades ago. Now it's all Macs, mobiles, and consoles.


Agree. The most significant improvement in a long time has been has been SSDs. Was cool to have lived through a period where compute power was delivering real-world 2x performance every 18 months.




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