Kaybug

Kaybug, also known as Y2K Aesthetic, was the style of product design and architecture experimented with in the time period between 1997 and 2003.

Neither the original 1997-2003 period nor the revival in the late 2010's and early 2020's succeeded in bringing the style to the general public consciousness, only being considered a niche architectural style similar to the brief experimentation with Art Nouveau in the first decade of the 20th Century.

Neo Kaybug
The style saw a revival of interest in the New 20's in the Old Real, known as Neo Kaybug, which also takes a lot of inspiration from the colorful aesthetic of Asian consumer products during the 1997-2025 period. However, the aesthetic did not succeed in giving the Y2K Aesthetic a front-and-center position in pop culture of the 2020's.

In the late 12010's, Neo Kaybug became widely popular in the New Real as the product design of the Quill qTop computer became a sensation on Gaia. Instead of changing the style of new qTop machines (as was done by Apple towards the iMac G3 with the iMac G4), Quill embraced the colored translucent plastic and touted Neo Kaybug as a "design philosophy" of intuitive interfaces.