Why did pre 2000 hardware smell interesting

while modern hardware smells like nothing or bitter?

I remember my Japanese made Eizo CRT smelled like adventure when warmed up.

Different flux and tin with Pb.

Cute dogger

It's times like these that I remember Sup Forums is literally full of irl autists.

So non-autists don't have noses?

Because modern tech smells like china.

Try walking into a harbor freight sometime.

It smells just like china.

Lead based solder.
Corona effect.
Different plastics, in cases and PCBs (Which are no longer made from plastics.
Autism.

>manufacturers actually go so far to perfume electronics and even cars to make them subconsciously more appealing to people

>LEL U GUIZE R JUS AUTITS XD

it's just the lens

Your thinking of fish eye.
>doge nose.

Source?

>Corona effect
This. The ozone smell is distinct.

They wash it. Seriously, soap and water.

silly doggo hardware doesn't smells :3

Ozone.

I have it on good authority that the Jews are responsible.

>tfw smell of fresh motherboard manual form 95-03
why was it so good?

>I remember my Japanese made Eizo CRT smelled like adventure when warmed up.
This was the radiation creating tumors in your brain. The smell was a lie.

>The name ozone derives from ozein (ὄζειν), the Greek verb for smell, referring to ozone's distinctive smell.

Holy shit I just learned that ozone wasn't named because it's a "zone" of "oxygen" in the atmosphere.

Some inks smell really good like the ones they used for Pokemon cards.

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>tfw pokemon red/blue manual scent