Given my ill-hidden disdain for Macs and the General Cultish Hype that Usually Surrounds Them, it might be slightly ironic that I’ve spent the better part of today surrounded by four of the things—two of which were older Power Mac G3s—that needed files transferred and backed up.

Has anyone noticed the swirly-hologram pattern on the back panel of the G3s? An image search online showed nothing useful with which to illustrate my point, but when you’re going crossed-eyed connecting and re-connecting computers together in a task that’s altogether too difficult for a mind as simple as mine, the last thing you want to see is a repeating-pattern hologram set just a layer beneath the printed labels of which cable goes where, so that your eyes have to struggle to focus on the right thing.

I know the G3 came out at a time where it was radical and groovy and pot-smokey to have a computer that wasn’t grey or black; the hologram was perhaps all the designers could do to stop themselves from just straight out making it tie-dyed.