it’s easy to get suckered in to nostalgia. it’s something i worry about falling into every day. that said…

there are good ways to relive nostalgia. those being bringing things we used to do, such as physical music, MP3 players, DVD, pixel art in video games, stop motion, forum boards, RSS ...

I'm nostalgic for some things but it doesn't have any impact on my current life aside from hobby-related stuff which I think is pretty harmless. However, from what I can tell nostalgia has already been weaponized in the USA. It really looks like boomers & older are nostalgic for their childhood ...

I always see this kind of thread everywhere in other forums. This doomer mentality that the "old web" was so much better and that the modern web has gone to shit. Not that that's entirely wrong but I feel this point has been obnoxious to the alt web, atleast to me. We need to move on at some point ...

I always see this kind of thread everywhere in other forums. This doomer mentality that the "old web" was so much better and that the modern web has gone to shit. Not that that's entirely wrong but I feel this point has been obnoxious to the alt web, atleast to me. We need to move on at some point ...

I also discovered a company called Polyconcept that used to make a lot of cheap, gimmicky retro products from the below video. It seems like the modern-day advent of cheap "retro" audio equipment started in the 90s/2000s.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bmcJ-_BbxQ

Polyconcept no longer makes ...

At the risk of getting too close to violating the same rule, I don't think that people stating a simple fact (that the internet and the quality of posts/content made on it, even by humans, have degraded, and that new technology has largely lost its luster for people) has that much to do with trends ...

its a sopranos quote you dips

I'mma be honest I was not expecting this topic to be so popular (in hindsight, maybe I should have been) I finally had a moment to read everything. I guess I'm just sort of glad I wasn't alone in this feeling.


The old web was in many ways better but also not always better. The web is still great ...