Even the young people are nostalgic for a time when new technology was actually cool rather than mostly being a way to more effectively use everyone’s data against them.
There’s also that 30-year cycle phenomenon where things from 3 decades ago become trendy again, like how 80s stuff got more popular again in the 2010s.
The asthetic is coming back, the protocol is not. Were still going to be using all the modern tools to ensure a secure and encrypted connection, but visiting shit that looks like the OG SpaceJam website.
Even the young people are nostalgic for a time when new technology was actually cool rather than mostly being a way to more effectively use everyone’s data against them.
I can confirm this as a young person fascinated by the (so far, Apple) tech from the late 2000s and early 2010s.
yeah. also under 30, but my family has a bunch os old technology kicking around. I used Windows Vista on an old HP Media Center PC for a while, we have a few floppy discs lying around, along with an old Compaq Presario running Windows ME. from my experience, it wasn’t so bad? currently, I’m obsessed by a Casio digital organizer from ~1969. the topic of this post has escaped me quite a while back (sorry for that), but yes, things were quite fun from back then. Is it weird/ unusual/ odd that I miss those times even though I never lived through them?
Even the young people are nostalgic for a time when new technology was actually cool rather than mostly being a way to more effectively use everyone’s data against them.
There’s also that 30-year cycle phenomenon where things from 3 decades ago become trendy again, like how 80s stuff got more popular again in the 2010s.
I don’t see nostalgia for the old internet among my techie friends. Old hardware yes, but not the old internet.
I have a 286 and enjoy the sites that have all the abandonware - we never got discs for the games that came with our first computer
One complains about unnecessary SSL as his old machines can’t do SSL
The asthetic is coming back, the protocol is not. Were still going to be using all the modern tools to ensure a secure and encrypted connection, but visiting shit that looks like the OG SpaceJam website.
That also probably drives the Fediverse’s adoption as well because people are tired of getting walled in by hostile corporations.
I can confirm this as a young person fascinated by the (so far, Apple) tech from the late 2000s and early 2010s.
I thought anyone under 30 wouldn’t have had experienced any of the cool tech but I guess things were pretty fun until the early 2010s.
yeah. also under 30, but my family has a bunch os old technology kicking around. I used Windows Vista on an old HP Media Center PC for a while, we have a few floppy discs lying around, along with an old Compaq Presario running Windows ME. from my experience, it wasn’t so bad? currently, I’m obsessed by a Casio digital organizer from ~1969. the topic of this post has escaped me quite a while back (sorry for that), but yes, things were quite fun from back then. Is it weird/ unusual/ odd that I miss those times even though I never lived through them?
Anemoia. It’s not odd. A quite common phenomenon.
huh, til. Thank you! :D
You’re welcome. It’s not a scientific term, though.