Malcolm Herbert

odd longing for an old familiar site - thinkgeek.com ... a snapshot of their catalogue still available on archive.org ...

I know there are workalike sites out there now providing almost pitch-perfect knock-offs of the old catalogue, but for some reason they don't have the same vibe to me ... or maybe I've aged out of this ... don't feel like I have, but anyway

https://web.archive.org/web/20120104191641/http://www.thinkgeek.com/tshirts-apparel/unisex/generic/

#thinkgeek #archiveorg

Mar 28 at 12:40amWeb
Show threadBenMar 28
@mherbert I'd forgotten about them! But you're right, Think Geek offered the unique and the quirky products. Similar sites these days are just peddling knock-offs or AI generated slop
Show threadMalcolm HerbertMar 28
@ben definitely ... also, I think the early 2000s were a golden moment for geekery - social media hadn't quite reached saturation and total dominance in every day life, so geek culture was still niche and not yet seen as massively intrusive and malign in the way that it would become, so I guess this is a yearning for simpler times when Google actually lived up to their motto ...
Show threadbignoseMar 28

Product quality is also a concern; one thing about Thinkgeek was their shirts were made in the USA, from decent quality fabric, and would wear for many years.

My experience with similar fun-printed-design shirts bought in the past ten years is much more disappointing.

@mherbert

Show threadMalcolm HerbertMar 28
@bignose this is true, I think all of my original thinkgeek t-shirts lasted a long long time ...