it goes one of two ways for me. let’s use cameras as an example. many “retro style” cameras are just cheap toys from aliexpress; in this context, “retro” is a cute way to say “bad on purpose”. however, polaroid still make their classic instant film cameras, refitted with modern tech systems, and i ...

Most of retro themed stuff focuses too much on the 'low-res quality' aspect. Like way too much. I have a Finepix S2980 from June 2012 (Im considering updating to something from 2013 or 15) and its probably much better then a crummy retro digicam from Kmart

More simple, less subscription and paid extras. Everything came in full back then instead of in bits. Games released back then were final product and were polished crisp and clean unlike now where there are issues and bugs riddled across the game upon release and the acceptance to roll out game ...

it was a time when technology was something fun, not a place where people doom into echo rooms. And since technologies such as smartphones didn't existed yet, people weren't addicted to internet. There was a balance between digital and real life, now digital life is the dominant one.

Also every ...

it was a time when technology was something fun, not a place where people doom into echo rooms. And since technologies such as smartphones didn't existed yet, people weren't addicted to internet. There was a balance between digital and real life, now digital life is the dominant one.

Also every ...

I just thought about Frutiger Aero after stumbling across a playlist of Frutiger Aero songs on Spotify, which opened a whole can of worms in nostalgia. Basically just made me look up Frutiger Aero on the web and instantly found the Frutiger Aero Archives website. Started off chatting on XAT from the ...

this is what i like to call the “old thing good, new thing bad” mentality, and having it means giving up many things in life



That's true but there are some old things I genuinely find to be better than newer things. Like for example I been learning Unreal Editor for Unreal Tournament 1999 ...

oh, of course, i’m not saying that ALL old things are bad. some old things are indeed better. in fact, i bet paying for a CD copy of an old version of photoshop would be a better investment than getting an adobe creative cloud subscription at this point

but, there are lots of new technologies that ...

A fun chaotic internet, a weird sense of mystery and frontier on the internet, and of course FLIP PHONES (i know they still have them but FLIP PHONES.)
Theres other things heres a more weird and personal one.
When I was younger a lot of the shit I had, watched, and played with was old like in ~2017 ...