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    Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 14
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    This feels strange to say but the 90s and aughts are going to be forgotten decades in a century. The historical drama of the 80s and 10s will overwhelm the memories. We’ll be left with vague memories of internet, 9/11 and good TV. The headspace will be impossible to re-evoke.

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      2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 14
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        It is strange that somewhat unpleasant but interesting and tumultuous times leave a more memorable footprint in cultural memory than relative peace and prosperity.

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      3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 14
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        My life feels like: 80s Pleasant montage 10s No larger memories of the 70s. The first public event I can recal is the 1982 Asian games when I was 8. My mansion will be set in a 1988 - 2010 time bubble, with an 80s nostalgia wing. The 10s will be edited out. 20s tbd.

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      4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Aug 14
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        I’d like to see memory-lane tech emerge. Time-boxed internets and VR worlds. I think even millennials were too young to remember just how pleasant the 90s were.

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      2. Kameron Bashi‏ @Kombushi Aug 14
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        The Golden Era of Hip-Hop will always be in the 90s.

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        Which makes this paragraph from High Fidelity one heck of a historical document. I haven’t been able to get this out of my head for a weekpic.twitter.com/ib7w2Rx0DA

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        That whole Wright brothers thing, solvay conference, cubism... but yeah not anchored to dates

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        The videogames were excellent as well.

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        Or maybe the survivors of the apocalypse will spend their time trying to recreate the good stuff from memory http://omniorthogonal.blogspot.com/2015/03/mr-burns.html …

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        Farewell good times

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