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Nostalgia

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nostalgia noun nos·tal·gia nä-ˈstal-jə nə-, also nȯ-, nō-; nə-ˈstäl- 1: a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition also : something that evokes nostalgia

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Honestly this was peak culture. Everything else has been down hill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's a fantastic resource! Thank you for sharing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I had a 900Mhz cordless phone with see-through blue plastic in the early 00s.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Those iMacs were incredibly cool back in the day. I never used one, but always thought they were awesome.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My elementary school had a couple of them in the computer lab. We would sprint down there to try and get them first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I remember going, as a highschool student, to a university open house and watching the students in the computer lab playing some tank game (bz?) on Silicon Graphics workstations with the biggest CRT monitors I had ever seen. Good old days!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Electronics designed to be used in prisons are often required to be manufactured using transparent plastic cases. (to prevent smuggling and to make it harder for inmates to hide stuff)