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Why is the Internet reverting to the 90s? (feddit.org)
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I'm seeing Britney, Bill Nye, and Boy Meets World. . . Everywhere!

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[–] 32 points 3 weeks ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 1 point 3 weeks ago

    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.

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