Nostalgia... Quite a strange phenomenon. I could never understand why I should yearn for the past. If speaking of vintage computers, I think now is the best time to experience that golden era. You have enough space, time, money and knowledge to play with almost all possible hardware and software of that era. What a wonderful time to live in!

And regarding a future nostalgia. Many things change over time, but one thing stays the same - a human nature. So I guess it will be pretty the same kind of nostalgia as today. Nothing special.

I already feel nostalgic for my first "proper gaming pc" wich i build in an Aerocool case.
It was called "Aerocool Aeroengine". Thats a proper name 😁
I think it was the first series of these cases, and aerocool is still selling a variation of this case today...
Before that i had to cut windows in my computers by myself 😁

If i remember right it must have been the time when i built my core2duo e6400 system in around 2006.
This was the first "cool case" i remember buying.

Damn... thats already 18 years ago... 🧓

DerBaum wrote on 2024-01-17, 19:43:

I already feel nostalgic for my first "proper gaming pc" wich i build in an Aerocool case. It was called "Aerocool Aeroengine". […]
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I already feel nostalgic for my first "proper gaming pc" wich i build in an Aerocool case.
It was called "Aerocool Aeroengine". Thats a proper name 😁
I think it was the first series of these cases, and aerocool is still selling a variation of this case today...
Before that i had to cut windows in my computers by myself 😁

If i remember right it must have been the time when i built my core2duo e6400 system in around 2006.
This was the first "cool case" i remember buying.

aerocool-aeroengine.jpg

Damn... thats already 18 years ago... 🧓

My last desktop was a plain beige box with an Intel Pentium 4 processor inside. Since then - only laptops. I completely missed the era of those space shuttles with blinking bells and whistles. 😄

@ThinkpadIL Thank you for your reply! 😃

It makes sense to me, but simultaneously I feel very nostalgic for times I wasn't even born yet.
Or rather, these times were something I can more relate to.

Personally, the current times are the worst of my life (until now), not just because of technology.
I felt home the most somewhere in the 90s.

It was the fading 20th century, when cold war ended and the wall fell.
It was a time when me and my friends could still image that world peace might be a possibility. Seriously, it was real. For a short moment.

At the time, international cooperation was at its height. ISS was being constructed, Euro currency was underway etc.
There was a feeling of togetherness. The 21th century was ahead, there was a feeling of euphoria.

Also, technology was still optional, not forced.
Kids could play outside, not every piece of ground had been given a dedicated purpose yet.

Like, a meadow was just a meadow. Kids, tens, people of all ages could play ball games, or play catch, do a somersault, people could do a picnic. Someone could fly a kite..

That's pretty much a memory of the past millennium, maybe. Nowadays, everything is being regulated. Bureaucracy everywhere.

And everyone has a "camera" with internet access to instantly shame someone publicly.
So you're always beeing afraid of being caught to do something not socially being accepted.

In an emergency, hypothetical speaking, you can't even pee behind a tree or bush anymore, because someone with a smartphone might catch you and tell you it's being forbidden.
Then makes a picture "of what you've done" and calls the police. Or something like that. Thank you, 21th century. 😂

But that's another story, it's rather off-topic.
I've always been optimist. Maybe I'll live long enough to see better times again. There are always highs and lows, after all. 😃

Edit:@ThinkpadIL I enjoy your optimism, you're reminding me of someone I used to be.
Please keep it up, you're doing well. 🙂👍

Edit: @DerBaum Cool. I've found those Plexiglas windows always pretty/useful.
You could see what's going on inside, see smoke or stuck fans. A PCI POST card could be left installed, too.

Jo22 wrote on 2024-01-17, 20:06:

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@ThinkpadIL Thank you for your reply! 😃

It makes sense to me, but simultaneously I feel very nostalgic for times I wasn't even born yet.
Or rather, these times were something I can more relate to.

Personally, the current times are the worst of my life (until now), not just because of technology.
I felt home the most somewhere in the 90s.

It was the fading 20th century, when cold war ended and the wall fell.
It was a time when me and my friends could still image that world peace might be a possibility. Seriously, it was real. For a short moment.

At the time, international cooperation was at its height. ISS was being constructed, Euro currency was underway etc.
There was a feeling of togetherness. The 21th century was ahead, there was a feeling of euphoria.

Also, technology was still optional, not forced.
Kids could play outside, not every piece of ground had been given a dedicated purpose yet.

Like, a meadow was just a meadow. Kids, tens, people of all ages could play ball games, or play catch, do a somersault, people could do a picnic. Someone could fly a kite..

That's pretty much a memory of the past millennium, maybe. Nowadays, everything is being regulated. Bureaucracy everywhere.

And everyone has a "camera" with internet access to instantly shame someone publicly.
So you're always beeing afraid of being caught to do something not socially being accepted.

In an emergency, hypothetical speaking, you can't even pee behind a tree or bush anymore, because someone with a smartphone might catch you and tell you it's being forbidden.
Then makes a picture "of what you've done" and calls the police. Or something like that. Thank you, 21th century. 😂

But that's another story, it's rather off-topic.
I've always been optimist. Maybe I'll live long enough to see better times again. There are always highs and lows, after all. 😃

In that regard i think the newer generations will have the exact same thing going on.
Since i can remember our rights have been reduced and things got more expensive, services got shut off, and politicians have been corrupt. That trend will not stop, so all generations will have the same nostalgia for the "good old times" even if the older generations remember "even better" times...

DerBaum wrote on 2024-01-17, 20:23:

In that regard i think the newer generations will have the exact same thing going on.
Since i can remember our rights have been reduced and things got more expensive, services got shut off, and politicians have been corrupt.
That trend will not stop, so all generations will have the same nostalgia for the "good old times" even if the older generations remember "even better" times...

To look at it this way is not wrong, though I think that the late 20th century was special in several ways.
That's how it seems to be to the people, at least. They still hang on to music from a certain era (60s-90s, mainly 70s/80s).
We saw things like advent of microelectronics, home computers, music/video players, international communication, begin of space travel.
These were unversally outstanding things, rather than a matter of personal preference.

That being said, it's not easy to discuss these things, because someone can always throw in a "but..".
Personally, I don't have the feel that the past was universally better, either.
To a few others and me the 90s were a special time frame, simply, for a couple of reasons.
The Great Depression and WW2 of the early 20th century certainly weren't happy times that anyone feels nostalgic for.

Edit: But it's true that thinking about such things makes sense. Questioning things, like questioning my point-of-view, too.
By looking back through the eyes of others (here: our future people), we may see ourselves more clearly.
I for one find it highly fascinating to see things from other perspectives in a while, even if they may prove me wrong.
By thinking in different ways, we may be able to not end up like (or become) the people our parents had warned us about.

Damn you made me think about listening Dua Lipa - Future Nostalgia 🤣

I suspect that the word "computer" may not have too long a life. For the generation born after the 2020s, their lives and work may revolve around AI.When they get old, they may miss their complete mobile phones, applications, and games, including chatgpt.Studying hardware components will not be their pleasure.
Those who really love hardware and like to mess with it are the young people in the 1980s and 1990s. That was the golden age of truly studying computers, and it will never return.Because as the degree of integration becomes higher and higher, the word computer, especially PC, is no longer a bottleneck affecting the development of the times.
I think this is the value of vogons. It will not only become a witness and memory of the IT era, but also become a valuable archive management of the development of computer hardware.
It will become an intangible cultural heritage：）

Kids will one day have nostalgia for the PS5 and Switch.

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Personally, the current times are the worst of my life (until now), not just because of technology.
I felt home the most somewhere in the 90s.

It was the fading 20th century, when cold war ended and the wall fell.
It was a time when me and my friends could still image that world peace might be a possibility. Seriously, it was real. For a short moment.

At the time, international cooperation was at its height. ISS was being constructed, Euro currency was underway etc.
There was a feeling of togetherness. The 21th century was ahead, there was a feeling of euphoria.

Also, technology was still optional, not forced.
Kids could play outside, not every piece of ground had been given a dedicated purpose yet.

Like, a meadow was just a meadow. Kids, tens, people of all ages could play ball games, or play catch, do a somersault, people could do a picnic. Someone could fly a kite..

That's pretty much a memory of the past millennium, maybe. Nowadays, everything is being regulated. Bureaucracy everywhere.
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This ^^^^
I feel exactly the same 🙁
In Poland, this is often quoted with the phrase "To se ne vrati, pane Havranek." <- Although it is in Czech(?)/Slovak(?), it is understandable enough for Poles.
Our languages are quite similar. Sorry for offtopic...