Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by jakelazaroff on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:07PM
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This crystallized for me during a discussion about which websites people missed, when someone said “I would say Purevolume but there’s nothing that it did that SoundCloud or Bandcamp don’t do just as well”. I realized that it’s not the websites I’m nostalgic about — it’s the people, the culture and my younger self.
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Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by timmytokyo on Sunday June 13, 2021 @02:59PM
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Nostalgia is not really about the places and things you're reminiscing about; it's more about remembering the positive way you felt when you experienced those places and things in the past. We miss those feelings and want to recapture them in some way, but we can't. That's why nostalgia is painful in a strange, indescribable way.