When I was a kid, I thought, “I wish I was alive when Elvis and the Beatles were around.”
Now I hear kids say, “I wish I was alive when arcades were around, and there were real Outrun cabinets.”
Time is a funny thing because kids imagine these arcades were neon-drenched in pink and purple, with people casually wearing powergloves and leather jackets.
So it makes me wonder if my entire idea of the 50s and 60s is a caricature.
@atomicpoet can't speak to the 50s, but the 60s were just boring and normal, day to day. Far less interesting, far less accessible information, than today's world.
@atomicpoet Me, I miss the early 2000s, but in the sense that, I was a child in the 2000s, and assumed my adulthood would be like that. I assumed I'd have an easy time finding the fashion I liked, that I'd have a Windows XP computer with a CRT monitor, and that I'd have a pink motorola razr phone lol.
Now as an adult, I'm frustrated that all the new music hurts my ears (I really wish it didn't, it legit sucks having your taste stuck in the past), we're stuck with Windows 10 or 11, CRTs are expensive and dying, and the only flip-phones currently being made are geared toward elders and digital minimalists and thus aren't cool and pink anymore lol