Submitted 3 weeks ago by LadyButterfly@reddthat.com to historymemes@piefed.social
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i’m going to start a cult where everything has to be violently anachronistic. Either art deco, art nouveau, or some distinct pre-1700’s style.
Brick skyscrapers next to hobbit holes and swiss cottages; people wearing those chinese scribe outfits and pulling a smart-pocket-watch from their sleeve to read a telegraph they just recieved, while sitting on a horse-pulled tram (electric, the horses just walk in front for the vibes) with wood panel interior and free wifi.
Yesterweb irl
I was being a smart ass… the site looks like the internet did when I was a teen. I love it
If you’re pining for the 90’s, i’m estimating you weren’t there
plastic in the water, PFAS in our blood, a hole in the ozone layer, war in the middle east, israel doing genocide and occupying lebanon, the soviet union disintegrates and throws millions into poverty, genocide in Rwanda, Bosnian genocide, the president of the usa involved in what amounts to sex abuse, heroin epidemic, racism, racism racism this list n+1
I liked the music but there’s some survivorship bias there, I just miss guitar bands, I miss having space for a drum kit, I don’t miss the 90s
Been spending most our lives…
And the Pizza Hut still serves legitimately good pizza, and they don’t fucking count cheese as a topping.
If we still have IRC, I’m in. AOL was just a little too lame, sometimes you want to have a conversation that doesn’t start with “A/S/L???”
I am not down for this. There are modern non Ai audio tools I use. I like the media rich chat services we have too… But, I understand.
We mustn’t hide. We mustn’t run. we must get into the damn robot. And eleminnate the rich religious nut heads who are disappointed God hasn’t come to vist and constructed a false God.
My dudes Lemmy is social media. How is your cognitive dissonance going, upvoting this and engaging with it here on social media?
56k modems for everyone!
will AOL Chat rooms be Matrix or XMPP?
AIM? I think you meant to say “we use ICQ and everyone have a 5digit number”
Ooh can we have a IRC server too? We need a place to coordinate super soaker fights. Where did the humongous super soakers with backpacks go?
I hope it doesn’t include 90’s racism, homophobia and transphobia. It was way worse than it is today.
That’s basically the premise of The Matrix.
That’s going to be our dementia towns isn’t it? No 1950s world for us. We’ll all be sat there playing Mario 64, listening to The Prodigy, and wondering who that nice old lady is that lives with us…
M137@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago It’s really fucking sad that Pizza hut is seen and remembered in any positive way in the US, it really shows how fucking bad you have it.
A pizze hut opened in my city here in Sweden about two decades ago and it immediately became “ooh, this american thing everyone has heard of through movies is so bad that everyone has to go to it just to experience the unimaginable shit quality and taste.”
Even the cheapest street corner pizzerias we have are in a whole other universe comparably.
Only if AIM is encrypted now. Else can we update it to Delta Chat and pretend it’s AIM because Encryption?
I’ve been wondering what tech levels would be SELF SUSTAINABLE. Like the amish lifestyle is a circular economy, everything they need they can make themselves, grow themselves, and compost themselves. Like mostly.
But can you have something like electric motors or wind power in the same way? Can you have electronics? Can you have eReader? Like if you had a town the size of 50.000 people.
Theoretically advances in technology could allow for things like biological computing. Like a variety of seeds to produce plants making all sorts of medicine, or single cell cultures then organize into simple electronics. Not sure how sci-fi that is. But in a way that would be a “safe point” for civilization.
Because even after a limited nuclear exchange which is is getting more and more likely each year we’re not going to have any global supply chain left.
You can keep the IMs. I would like MP3s, though. A library could have a computer that can be booked for research purposes.
I’m debating over on-demand video and better TVs. Maybe a compromise would be the community decides its own broadcast schedule so it’s not as instant but still allows some modern media.
let’s bring ICQ back.
mnfalconia_a2gc@retrolemmy.com 3 weeks ago If someone is going to run with this idea, I very sincerely ask that you please do it in one of the locations marked on this map. Then my company will be able to operate a 1990s-technology cellular phone network in the proposed neo-Amish town, a network that will enable 1990s GSM cellphones to actually work! And I do mean it with full seriousness - the linked website is my actual company, with all attendant legal and contact info.
Out of the set of locations marked on the linked map, I strongly prefer the ones in Oregon. I and the rest of my founding team are based in California, and I am a trans woman - hence certain places are, quite sadly, simply unsafe for to me travel to, let alone the intricate tasks of building towers, installing equipment and then operating and maintaining it. There are no PCS spectrum vacancies in our home state of CA, but OR is close, has good spectrum available, and it is a lovely state with strong LGBTQ+ rights.
I dream of a time in my life when I can sit around in my grandpa chair playing 80’s and 90’s video games on my 90inch PPMQ+LER/LED with macrovision and google-tone color rendering 3D/8D ultra-thin TV in a retro case to make it look like a giant version of those old floor model “piece of furniture in and of themselves” TVs like my grandpa had back in '84. Maybe my AI grandson can play along so I can relive the childlike wonder of playing through these games for the first time from the perspective of a kid AI.
Stolas@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago I’m not. There were some awful parts of the 90s.
It’ll never be the same anyway. Something that a lot of legacy gaming servers has taught me is that you can’t replicate nostalgic memories.
So um is this just millennial retirement? Boomers are getting their senior communities we need our own communities
Noyesster@piefed.social 3 weeks ago sign me up
But will it have LGBT Rights?
I’ve heard people mocked for being “stuck in the 60s.”
cknight@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago ICQ, IRC, and Livejournal.
Not Amish, LoTeK!
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app 3 weeks ago people who say this never actually, like, quit social media or anything that would bring them closer to this
The 90s but without bigotry or cigarettes. Just us, 90s consoles, a windows 98, cds and cd-rom games, and some pizza.