I think the reason our generation is so nostalgic (i.e. “You know you’re a 90s kid when _____”) is because of the sheer rate of technological advance in the last 20 years. Think of what the technological landscape was in the early-mid 90s. The internet was practically useless for entertainment purposes, smart phones were merely a dream for hopeful young inventors, TV was king, landlines and VHS and cassettes. The Jetsons seemed hundreds of years away and now we’re practically living the Jetsons. We’ve got robots that clean our floors and smart homes that you can talk to and have it control your home and the 90s equivalent of a supercomputer in our pocket, TV is becoming obsolete in favor of computers. In 20 years it’s changed this much. And that’s why millennials are so nostalgic despite being in their twenties, it’s because an entire lifetime or two of technological advancement has happened right before our eyes

My fave aesthetic is 80s and 90s technology in scifi movies like I love those old blocky cathode monitors and shitty graphics from like Contact or Alien or even X-Files like I love retro futurism and I love that in the observatory I use sometimes all of the monitors are from the 90s and I feel like I’m Doing More when I’m using all this manual tracking shit and old ass technology as opposed to getting new modern stuff that does everything for you and it would be so much easier but it just feels so much more homey to use outdated stuff

i love reading about the old days of fandom like YES tell me what the harry potter fandom was like in the late 90s tell me what the star trek fandom was like circa 1966 tell me about 90s fandoms tell me about ye olde fanfiction thats older than me i wanna be a fandom archaeologist