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Valve Console Compared to NeXTCube: Welcome Back, Cube Computing
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Valve Console Compared to NeXTCube: Welcome Back, Cube Computing

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A side-by-side comparison meme showing two cube-shaped computers. On the left is the original NeXTcube computer (Steve Jobs' NeXT workstation) labeled 'Died 1993', a black cube with ventilation slats and the NeXT logo. On the right is a modern black cube-shaped device labeled 'Born 2025', appearing to be Valve's new console, with USB ports and a power button visible on the front panel. Below both images, text reads 'Welcome back NeXTCube'. The meme draws a visual parallel between Steve Jobs' groundbreaking NeXTcube -- which ran NeXTSTEP (the ancestor of macOS) -- and Valve's new cube-shaped hardware, suggesting history is cyclical in tech design

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Every 30 years, the tech industry rediscovers that cubes are just rectangles with better PR
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Every 30 years, the tech industry rediscovers that cubes are just rectangles with better PR

  2. Anonymous

    The new NeXTcube runs everything in a container, but deep down, it's just Display PostScript arguing with a Mach kernel about who gets to draw the windows

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