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t3tr0m1n0 · 3 days ago

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the way i see it there's basically no nostalgia for the internet of the 1980s-90s; at most you'd get nostalgia for the internet's portrayal in kids' media and the state of personal computer ownership in general back then. (even for the young adults on the internet at that time i don't think you'll currently find much nostalgia from their grown selves for back then.) going into the 2000s there's still no centralized source of nostalgia due to the lack of major social media sites or a pc gaming scene insofar as either of those could appeal to children- kids were using the internet by then but you'd find much less consensus on what's from that time worth being nostalgic over. that's why any media you'll see today trying to nostalgiabait for that time has either got to be a. niche as all hell or b. broad-strokes to the point of incoherency. see: analog horror is the 70s-90s and then digital horror leaps right into the end of the 00s through 2010s. (also, you can't very well make a creepy subversion of household/kids media from that time when that's what 90% of the content was anyway. look at that, someone's killing barney the dinosaur on the front page of newgrounds.) this post takes its caveats from the 20 year media/generation/throwback/whatever cycle and my age which i assure you isn't giving me much expertise on this subject

#my earliest years on the internet were not on social media (good god you'd hope so with how early they were)#but they still felt heavily colored by millenials'/90s kids' childhoods getting relived/talked about a whole bunch #because i mean what were you going to do on a dedicated public web site talk about normal everyday modern adult stuff?#also sprach #i guess this post is also about how the internet went from having No space for kids to having #a good damn amount of kid-specific places to having no places for kids again but none properly excluding them either #there's a pervasive feeling on social media (& other websites) that if you're on there you Might be a kid. you might #but... you're still probably an adult... right? a feeling likely left over from those early decades #of ''what the fuck would any child be doing (unsupervised) where other people are on the internet''#i didn't put all that^ in this post though because again i don't have memories of all that #& even if i did i don't think my childhood is all that objective + i feel too uninformed on the #online social sphere of the aughts. god i would be so happy to find some good already-done research #slash other educational resource on this topic #c u thru the q #one final note: isn't ''digital horror'' kind of a. really unintuitive name for a genre. like it lacks what ''found footage'' does yeah?#or am i writing this post too late at night

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