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Re:Retrofuturism by egypturnash on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @09:51PM (#23087186)
Zillions of people. Usually it gets called steampunk (18xx) or dieselpunk (193x-194x). 195x-6x futurism usually ends up going very Googie. And we’re starting to see 70s/80s retrofuturism, mostly I’d say the word associated with that is vaporwave.

More art than actual tech, and most of the tech is one-off hand-built stuff.

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Re:Retrofuturism by jerry1979 on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:02PM (#23087248)
Cassette Futurism for the '80s. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism
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Re:Retrofuturism by stryan on Wednesday May 06, 2020 @10:17AM (#23091194)
Vaporwave, despite using a lot of 80s samples, is generally more associated with the 90s. Vaporwave is all about the simultaneous apex and decline of mall culture, consumer excess in optimism of the post-Cold War, and early WWW aesthetic.

70s/80s would be Cassette Futurism and Sythwave.

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Re:Retrofuturism by Swizec on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @09:57PM (#23087222)
Would cyberpunk count as 90s retrofuturism? Or have we decided it hits too close to home for present times?
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Re:Retrofuturism by irscott on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @10:19PM (#23087335)
Nah cyberpunk is it's own thing and the aesthetic way predates the 90s.
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