A technological aesthetic reminiscent of mid-1970s to late 1990s tech (regardless of the real-time setting of the media) as codified by early microcomputers like the Altair 8800 and the IBM Personal Computer, late Cold War era technology, the iconic imagery of the mid to late space race, or the post-Cold War “end of history” period in The '90s, which was characterized by a fascination with virtual reality technologies (such as helmets) and 2D computer animation.
Whether it be the bold colors and geometric shapes, the tendency towards stark plainness, or the exotic-looking computers and proto-cell phones, it is clear that this is neither the Raygun Gothic of days past nor the Everything Is an iPod in the Future aesthetic that would follow, but a bridging point that contains elements of both styles.
Amazingly, nobody appears to have done a Wikipedia page for cassette futurism yet, or I’d link to that.
It’s kind of earlier, but a little bit would be casette futurism.
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism
Amazingly, nobody appears to have done a Wikipedia page for cassette futurism yet, or I’d link to that.
That’s mostly synthwave aesthetic. Synthwave covers that same sort of stylistic convention as cassette futurism.