Anime and Manga Tech Gallery

For years, I always wanted to create a webpage with a collection of images from manga and anime that featured code or computers. I did amass a large collection but loss many of them over the years and the ones I do still have, I no longer remember where it is from.

You can view the galllery under /galllery

Watching Patlabor Movie 3 (ya I know it’s not good), I decided to start a new collection from scratch. Here are some notable snippets:

The movie was released in 2002, around the year my family got our first set of desktops that I grew up with. As typical for this time period, the desktop features a CD drive (not DVD) and a floppy disk drive.

From a side angle, it becomes clear that the mouse connector is likely a PS/2 connector and not USB (also typical during this timeframe).

A retro view of downloading a file from the internet back in the day. The blocky windows, the use of large icons and download animations suggests that this is featuring Windows 95 or Windows Me. Though the circular window options (e.g. the minimize, expand, and close buttons) being circular makes it hard to tell the browser being feature. It could be Netscape or Internet Explorer (IE). I am going for Internet Explorer due to the fact that Netspace popularity severely declined in the late 90s. The version number does not match IE version at time the movie was released. It would have been likely IE 4 or IE 5 that is being featured but perhaps there was a Japanese web browser during this time period that I am not aware of that would better match this.

A feature now lost in time, the iconic zoom magnifying glass. I am not sure when web browsers started to phase out this feature, I totally forgot it even existed. Looking at demos for Internet Explorer 6, the picture resizing tool is quite different from what I recalled. Perhaps this feature died off much earlier than I thought.

Bonus: I found a nice webpage that features the looks of various softwares at different period of time.

The style of placing the monitor above the horizontal desktop tower is definitely the product of the 80s or the early 90s. Monitors in the were typically fat back then, even during the early 2000s as LCD displays were expensive compared to their CRT counterparts.

Bonus: Japanese Computers

A classical VHS cover along with an audio casette tape that were popular in the 80s and the 90s. Not sure if it’s the art, but I recall casette tapes being much slimmer than portrayed in the anime. Perhaps this is not an audio casette but rather a compact VHS (VHS-C used in camcorders. I simply assumed it was an audio casette tape since there would be no need for a VHS and it is later featured for audio usage in the movie. Though I could have recalled this incorrectly.

Note: My memory is very fuzzy when it comes to tech from the 80s and 90s as I grew up in the 2000s so I only had limited interaction with these technologies.

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This is from the webtoon, I Became the Villain the Hero Is Obsessed With, featuring the output of the top command.