No problem. I’m a bit sensitive on getting insulted, since insults is how a certain person communicates with me. I was raised on being insulted, so finding an aggressive subtext in a normal statement isn’t a problem to me :)

And I’m like 90% sure the artifact has been identified: https://people.cs.pitt.edu/~zhangyt/research/micpro2017.pdf and https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.15577. Or if this isn’t the thing, it’s extremely close to the thing I remember.

But if you’re a fan of schizophrenic theories such as the famed Time Cube, I know just the place.

Is that an insult or just a misguided attempt to help? How is a schizophrenic theory a piece of computer hardware?

It was not a 3D render, it was a photo of a piece of hardware in the shape of a cube. Not cube-like, a cube with some parts sticking out. I’m like 90% sure it was mostly circuit board in deep blue. I don’t think it was a PC per se, but definitely physical hardware. And the official name might not be “The Tesseract” but that’s what all the articles called it.

That is a PC case of an enjoyable aesthetic.

It wasn’t an artist’s randition, it was photos. And it wasn’t a case, it looked like a component. Or maybe an entire computer in one, like the Raspberry Pi? I don’t know, man, it was a cube, I’m not a scientist.

The pictures could’ve been just some prop or something. I don’t know. Both articles I remember used the same pictures. I remember several photos from various angles. It was a new thing less than a decade ago. So 2010s would be the decade. It was definitely new kind of physical structure, but I’m not sure about actual computing architecture as in software side.

Actually, that could be it. I remember reading something about improved latency and changes in physical computing architecture. I’m not 100% sure this is it, but it’s definitely close to what I remember.

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Well, I did not do any LSD ever, so I don’t think that’s it either. Interesting story, though.

The SGI workstation looks nothing like the cube I’m talking about. It’s cube-like, I admit, but the Tesseract was a perfect cube, all sides even. It had different components on different sides, exposed circuitry.

How would it be a promotion? It looked nothing like it did in the MCU. It had circuits and other parts like a graphics card does, or a motherboard. The circuit board was a dark blue, I think.

Edit: Turns out I can’t read. I read your comment as “Maybe it was a promotion or altered reality (as in ARG)”. But no, I don’t think that is the case. It’s not like remembering a detail wrong, like with the Mandela Effect. I couldn’t just have imagined reading several articles on a product. That’s not how it works, I don’t think.

No, not the one from the Loki show… It was like a computer. I don’t remember exactly what it did, but there was a lot of hype around it. Well, maybe “a lot” is an over exaggeration, but there were news stories written about it. I remember reading at least two articles on two different sites.

No that’s not it. It was like a cube. The articles I read showed pictures of it being like a dark blue color. This is not what I am searching for. But thanks.

And I don’t use Google. I use DuckDuckGo and udm14.org