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Is there a specific reason you're interested in retro media, old internet, or other retro content? Did your interest start with anything in particular? 

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A couple things probably, one of which was my grandpa being a baby boomer. It introduced me to the 1960s fashion I still love today. Otherwise, my parents older games they used to play and AVGN as a kid helped me get into the 80s and 90s specifically.Is there a specific reason you're interested in retro media, old internet, or other retro content? Did your interest start with anything in particular?![]()
That's a cool story! It`'s like you can now live/discover all the nostalgic memories again with better opportunities that you haven't had as a kid. Really like that :DPersonally, my interest in retro stuff is pretty much just my interests not changing from when I was younger. It's not really a nostalgia thing, though. I still have a lot of the same interests I did as a kid, but I now have the means to engage with them, whereas when I was a kid I couldn't really watch or read a lot of things, much less play a large variety of videogames, or use the internet freely. So, as an adult I started watching, reading, playing, and just generally doing stuff I wanted to as a kid, and I really, really enjoyed all of it. This started me on being interested in retro media in general, retro fashion, and old internet. It's kind of just escalated from there, with me embracing now-dated interests I couldn't have when I was younger and developing new interests in retro stuff because of that.
Same. It was a unique zeitgeist of optimism and color in art, fashion and architecture I didn't get to fully experience and today's pop culture is safe and unexistent. The world was also bigger because we didn't have easily accessible information on it so there was a lot to wonder about and experience first-hand.Personally, my interest in retro stuff is pretty much just my interests not changing from when I was younger. It's not really a nostalgia thing, though. I still have a lot of the same interests I did as a kid, but I now have the means to engage with them, whereas when I was a kid I couldn't really watch or read a lot of things, much less play a large variety of videogames, or use the internet freely. So, as an adult I started watching, reading, playing, and just generally doing stuff I wanted to as a kid, and I really, really enjoyed all of it. This started me on being interested in retro media in general, retro fashion, and old internet. It's kind of just escalated from there, with me embracing now-dated interests I couldn't have when I was younger and developing new interests in retro stuff because of that.
I think it's got a pretty nebulous definition, personally anything before 2010 but after 1970 I think can feel retro to me but it varies. I see a lot of people use it to only refer to the '80s, '90s, or 2000s. I think it maybe has to have a certain degree of kitsch for some people to consider something retro, but I'm unsure.i was born in the late 90's but in my house we still used a lot of old tech and some of my best friends did the same. We werent poor its just that if something works why change it(a mentality i still have now in my early 20's). For some reson i am obssesed with the gamecube and i allways wanted one. I love oldstyle 3d graphics a lot of them still look beatifull. Even as a futeure game developer i would like to recreate old graphics styles with the new tech.
now that i answered your question i would like to ask one myself. What characteristics does something need to have in order to be considered retro? Because being old donset really do as for example the 7 gen consoles are alomst 20 years old and nobody would say that they are retro.