Get off my BBS!
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I donāt know. Iām already starting to see 00ās trends coming back with the youth.
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Definitely have some nostalgia for the 00s here. Playing Quake 3 Arena and Unreal Tournament '99 and 2003/4 with friends, getting into writing music with Reason and ReBirth, lots of games of that time generally. Loads of amazing music in the 00s. Rephlex was killing it!! Plus all the usual nostalgia for just being a teenager/young adult, especially in a time before smartphones and social media. I wonder if in another 20 years Iāll feel nostalgic for a world before AI, too.
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Iām already tired of a world with AI.
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Yes sir! No money with two kids buying on and on by Jack Johnson CD! That shit was on repeat for years! And now on my Easter playlist for when the family comes over!
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Wait, thatās not what this place is?
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Ha! Increasingly it seems it is!
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Maye not what I had in mind 
Some 00s faves:
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Iād imagine not a real crowd pleaser in this neck of the woods but the nostalgia is strong with that one!
I still remember sitting in my jeep with my wife on a coffee run, putting that CD in for the first time like it was yesterday!
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I still remember sitting in my jeep with my wife on a coffee run, putting that CD in for the first time like it was yesterday!
Well thatās a legitimately lovely memory 
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It sure was, we were out of the house away from babies for twenty minutes!
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The Tree Ring effect of cultural products providing a standard for time dating has been fading out since the turn of the millennium.
Yes, people will always be nostalgic for their own personal past, but in the 20th C entire generations had the same things in common.
Nothing of the kind is true today. Culture-wide nostalgia becomes impossible because: no common Culture to begin with.
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Weāll be in the old folks home still getting down to 90s hip hop, wu-tang, 90s Jungle and DnB along with some old 80s house and italo records. Thank full crap like Hootie and the blowfish, Dave Matthews, will be forgotten in the storm gutter of history.
Generations will always remember the songs in their teenage and twenties years. College Freshmen were now born after 9/11. Itās a whole different thing. Most if not everything is eventually forgotten. Except bronze sculpture that lasts a few thousand years at least.
Much depends on the future. If itās better than now, people will laugh at us, if itās the post apocalypse, they will wonder why we wasted so much fresh drinking water
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Iād argue that it isnāt that thereās no common culture, but that there is so much of it everyone doesnāt have to like the same niche. So, no monoculture anymore, but weāre all still watching/reading/listening to things influenced by the same set of other things. Whether or not we are aware of it.
And, at the same time, monocultures keep trying to form (Swifties, breakout gaming megahits, etc). People want monoculture, weirdly.
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My pet theory is that algorithms (and soon AI) ruined it. Now every single thing about us is tracked and the data dictates what the output should be.
I really believe this will flatten the deviation from norms and we will all be less creative in the future. We will be only creative towards what data things valuable. You want more streams? Produce more EDM ābangersā. You want more followers? You have to be present on ALL platforms and continuously post and engageā¦
I think this was the opposite of what internet was supposed to bring.
Highly recommend reading the book The Society of the Spectacle
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My pet theory is my cats have nostalgia as well! As soon as I cook pork/seafood they come running!
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I worry about this. Growing up in the 90s there were re-runs of 60s & 70s TV shows on the main UK channels, of which there were only four. So you got to see things your parents would remember watching in their youth. They also used to play old films on the TV all the time and my mum would often point out when a good one was coming up and Iād stay up to watch it or video it for later. When digital came in all that old stuff was relegated to a few nostalgia channels, which is when the decline in cultural cohesion began, at least for me. Before there were special āartsā channels and so on all of the interesting stuff had to be shoved somewhere on the regular programme. I learned so much just by staying up watching TV after 11pm.
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Future nostalgia be like two cockroach chilling and one says: āRemember that time when humans existed?ā
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Same, on some channels they had soft porn at night.
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