History of rgb in pcs?

[Retro_R]

I've always wondered what the history of rgb in computers is. Not really single color led stuff, but real rgb. Like what we have today. However, there aren't really any resources on this topic, are there any resources on this?

[Tamesh16]

2 minutes ago, Retro_R said:

rgb

rgb is quite new, old computers would just be white boxes, nothing too spectacular 

[Retro_R]

1 minute ago, Tamesh16 said:

rgb is quite new, old computers would just be white boxes, nothing too spectacular 

Just because it's new doesn't mean we shouldn't care about the history of it.

[PopsicleHustler]

The whole RGB craze began around 5 or 6 years ago when Corsair and Razer showed off RGB mechanical boards at CES...2014 (I think). Then all hell let loose and every major PC brand started making their own RGB product lineup.

 

Before that PCs didn't have any RGB in them. Everyone used single color lights to illuminate the inside of his rustbucket Gaming PC. The most popular was blue for some reason.

[Drak3]

An abbreviated history:

For a long time, we didn't have RGB lighting.

And then one day, we did.

12 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

The most popular was blue for some reason.

And Red. Red was also insanely popular.

[Bombastinator]

2 hours ago, Drak3 said:

An abbreviated history:

For a long time, we didn't have RGB lighting.

And then one day, we did.

And Red. Red was also insanely popular.

Red makes sense.  Red LEDs are cheap.  They’ve been able to make red LEDs for a long time.  Green was next. Soon after green, and purple (which makes a sort of white if you filter it with yellow) blue was invented though.  Blue was the hardest color to create.  Very expensive for a while.

 

The whole reason people wanted green and blue though is RGB together can make the whole color gamut.  Someone stuck a controller on them and now there is flashy flashy.

[NineEyeRon]

The history of internal PC lighting would give you the full story, RGB is just the latest chapter in the whole modding scene.

[dizmo]

What kind of resources were you looking for?
If you want to, you could always be the one to start a history of RGB in PCs.

I just don't think anyone else really cares enough to try.

[amdorintel]

two aspects

 

one is multi-color leds

two is rgb in pc's

 

maybe late 1990's early 2000's for rgb in pcs

[shaz2sxy]

I remember cold cathode tubes around 10 years ago

 

They where the original "lighting" for the PC. the LED/RGB is a evolution of it.

[Mira Yurizaki]

1 hour ago, shaz2sxy said:

I remember cold cathode tubes around 10 years ago

 

They where the original "lighting" for the PC. the LED/RGB is a evolution of it.

And there were fans with LEDs in them. Some of them having separate red, green, and blue LEDs.

 

So you could claim those were the original RGB LED hardware.

[amdorintel]

maybe neon was the first ever rgb

[kokakolia]

16 hours ago, Mira Yurizaki said:

And there were fans with LEDs in them. Some of them having separate red, green, and blue LEDs.

 

So you could claim those were the original RGB LED hardware.

I know you're half joking. But I have such a PC case. The Deepcool Steam Castle. I love it. 

Funny thing is, I only bought mine several years ago. It was on clearance obviously.