The vision of the future presented by the 80s aesthetic never materialised, and that is why we look back with sadness, but also comfort because the promise of the future from a bygone era is now an escape from the future that actually materialised.

@h3llr4iser1

2 жыл бұрын

One of the main issues is that the "future" that came, our "present time"...turned out to be an insipid squib, compared to what it could've been. Everything is just exactly the same - technology, all slabs of black plastic, indistinguishable in function. Cars, music, movies...even books to a certain point, small variations on the same theme - "it sells, don't change it". The '80s and to a lesser level the '90s have been the last era of actual change, individuality and choice, with their own style. After that, it's been one single blur of sameness.

@SeekJesusFindLife

2 жыл бұрын

@@h3llr4iser1 also true.

@GOODLUCKMUSIC8

2 жыл бұрын

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@holo406

2 жыл бұрын

@DOSboi Aidan Exactly, many of us feel the same way, more than you can imagine

@holo406

2 жыл бұрын

@@h3llr4iser1 exactly, nicely expressed

1998... I was 14 years old, my dad was still alive, we were living in our first home, had our first dog, and my lil brother was still part of my life. I remember school, playing outside til dark with my neighborhood friends and exploring the woods and running along side the creek that ran through it. Life was simpler then... I'd come home to play nintendo, listen to the radio, and watch TGIF on tv. I wish I could go back to those days...drinking koolaid and chillin in my room with a full family... I miss my whole family...

@kostis2849

3 жыл бұрын

I would like this, but it does not seem appropriate. May the synth be with you.

@a.c.bonneville189

3 жыл бұрын

call your brother

@ChrisTomlinsonlive

3 жыл бұрын

@@a.c.bonneville189 can't, he's blocked me on literally everything

@Chiibee

3 жыл бұрын

@@ChrisTomlinsonlive I don't know what to say but I hear you and thank you for sharing. You've always got your memories together of simpler times

@ThePhilosorpheus

3 жыл бұрын

I was 10... Living near the beach. Sunsets were always beautiful...

Having lived in 1998, this is a lot more like 1988. EDIT: OP has since changed the year from '98 to '91, big improvement in credibility.

@HouseJawn

3 жыл бұрын

Ya hip hop was at its peak and so was ska-rock, nu metal. This is def early/mid 80s

@arcticwolf9332

3 жыл бұрын

agreed, that mac is actually from the late 80s, and so is the vibe

@HouseJawn

3 жыл бұрын

@@arcticwolf9332 this music reminds me off Flight of the Navigator 👽🛸

@keanuovareeves

3 жыл бұрын

YES glad someone said it 😂

@dugroz

3 жыл бұрын

Those 3 1/2 inch floppy discs were JUST about completely out of use by '98. My mom had a Mac Classic (similar to the one pictured) around 1989-1990, roughly.

Miss the old AOL days, when life was simple and free from social media drama. Glad I grew up as a kid during those times.

@peterb5825

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like every generation says something like this. I wonder if the current generation will be any different.

@suchnothing

3 жыл бұрын

Did you not have AOL drama? Because everyone i know did lol.

@InconstantGlory

3 жыл бұрын

You mean when our every move wasn’t monitored lol

@hexkwondo

3 жыл бұрын

@@peterb5825 they do. But the times we lived in really did kick ass. But then the internet wasn't so regulated and everything felt new. Now, everything feels kinda dull and lifeless. The one thing I did hate about back was the connection speeds.

@hemidas

3 жыл бұрын

@@suchnothing Yeah, but they were nothing compared to Twitter and Facebook nowadays.

This is more 1993 but I won’t give you a hard time, lol. Edit: they changed it, it said 1998, now they have edited it to say 1991. WE WON PEOPLE

@pdrocrz

3 жыл бұрын

Couldnt agree more

@peterb5825

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah that Diet Pepsi can logo was gone by the late 90s and the mac is from the 80s. 1998 introduced the colorful g3 line of macs. Good mix though.

@Enigmatism415

3 жыл бұрын

Not even. It's more like 1988.

@pdrocrz

3 жыл бұрын

@@Enigmatism415 its funny though how kids nowadays absorve that era...their notion of 90's aestethic is like late 80's

@Enigmatism415

3 жыл бұрын

@@pdrocrz Yeah they don't get that there was a pretty big difference between early '90s and late '90s, in no small part because of the sudden explosion of the web. 1998 was already in Y2K-aesthetic territory.

Enough with the historical accuracy complaints, people. This isn't the History Channel. It's a daydream. You're doing great, OP.

@RetroPlayerOne

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks fam, I appreciate it! Lol you can find older comments that say it should be 1989 so I changed it to 1991 and now all the newer comments say it should be later 🤷‍♂️ it should say “insert desired year here” lol!

@cameronsmusicretreat

3 жыл бұрын

@@RetroPlayerOne only thing that makes it 'later' is AOL and the internet. other than that everything else is late 80s. So the video graphic and audio is an unfortunate mix of two eras lol, no date change will keep everyone happy when the screen shows internet shopping but the audio and vibe of the room screams 80s

@grayfiresoul

2 жыл бұрын

The thing is though, if you're attempting to capture an aesthetic or feeling reminiscent of a particular decade, by necessity you need to be accurate about what to present, and how, from that decade, right? It's built into the idea of vaporware itself, even if most vaporware in practice is reconstructivist/revisionist 80s and early 90s synth sounds and melodies.

@cryosteam3944

2 жыл бұрын

@@grayfiresoul nobody likes an art gatekeeper

@grayfiresoul

2 жыл бұрын

@@cryosteam3944 Being true to the spirit and sounds of the originals through one's own interpretation is gatekeeping? Can't say i've ever heard that one before, bud.

It's 1991. Terminator 2: Judgment day has just been released in theaters. Micheal Jackson is about to release his album "Dangerous". Brandon Lee's career is starting to look promising. Street Fighter 2: the world warrior begins to be a very popular video game in the arcade. I drink my diet pepsi as I look out the window at another sunset in 1991. The sun is setting on the horizon and the future looks bright.

@mosespray4510

2 жыл бұрын

That was so sad when Brandon Lee died. Nobody could believe it.

@gabrielgerman359

2 жыл бұрын

@@mosespray4510 until today I found it hard to believe

@FallouFitness_NattyEdition

2 жыл бұрын

How I wish I could have gotten to see T2 in theaters when it came out and played SF2 in the arcade. That would have been so awesome. Sure I can play that game and watch that movie whenever now and that's great. But, seeing it when it first came out and experiencing it then just doesn't quite add up.

@mosespray4510

2 жыл бұрын

@@FallouFitness_NattyEdition I did those things, and they were wonderful, but I'm also going to turn 57 next month. Someday the ordinary things you're doing now will seem amazing and awesome to the next generation.

@gabrielgerman359

2 жыл бұрын

@@FallouFitness_NattyEdition I was 6 years old in 1991. Despite my young age, my father took me to see T2 at the movie theatre. I don't really remember much except how the scene from Sarah Connor's nightmare imprese me.And at the end I remember feeling really sad when the terminator says goodbye and goes down to the lava. Regarding Street Fighter I used going to the arcade with my older brother and watching him play. I would have liked to be a little older to enjoy everything better at that time but at least I have vague good memories.

This is literally lowering my blood pressure

@verticalhelicalscan8629

2 жыл бұрын

hope this will too kzread.info/dash/bejne/l6Zkzpt7gJifddo.html kzread.info/dash/bejne/dpmGms6Ij6_KpNY.html

Definitely miss the world 90s and early 2000's it seemed way more care free, such a joy.

@StinkyGreenBud

2 жыл бұрын

Don't know about the early 2000's. Post 9/11 world has truly been shit. Though I take it you were a child in the 90's and a teen in the 2000's?

@XTen1000DaysX

2 жыл бұрын

@@StinkyGreenBud yup, born 1993. World was more carefreee then, its funny cuz you knew what everyone was into then.

@martinkraegel7965

Жыл бұрын

So glad I grew up during that time period.

@MoltenMetalGod7

4 күн бұрын

People say everyone says that about when they were growing up but I truly believe the 90s early 2000s truly were the last of whatever that was. Maybe the simplicity? I think a lot of it was due to massive shift and over reliance on technology + rapid social decay. Regardless SO glad to have grown up during that time

1998. My GOD. I was 22 years old. AOL chat rooms were fire back then. My friends and I would go into the 20's single chat rooms LOL. Going out at night. bars playing all the songs considered "oldies" today. Life was exciting. I am so proud to say I grew up in the '80s and '90s. XOXOXO

@rvfiasco

3 жыл бұрын

XOXOXO

@spark4039

3 жыл бұрын

I was 11 in 1998! Got my first discman that year 🙌 Panasonic Shockwave

@danryb

3 жыл бұрын

I believe it. I was 13 in 1998. I loved the time I grew up in but would've been cool to be a late teen/early 20s in that time!

@riley_oneill

3 жыл бұрын

I also went into those chats... but I was only 14.

@elevenpoisons2484

3 жыл бұрын

i was born in 1998 so i am 22. you must feel old huh

As someone who’s childhood was the 90s/early 2000s..this is definitely giving me summer evening 1995-97 vibes

This shit makes me really happy but also really sad for some reason. Nostalgia kills me sometimes thinking how those times are gone forever. You see things like that in those coming of age movies where people realize things are leaving and wont be the same and it tugs at you. But as corny as it is, when you hear certain songs that bring you back to your own good times like this that you can never relive, it hits hard.

@geartweaker8518

3 жыл бұрын

Get after it buddy, keep making new memories, keep stepping it up so that years from now you will be nostalgic for today. What's that thing you think would be awesome to do but just never quite start making the plans? Go get it, life is happening all the time

@OceanMetTheSky

3 жыл бұрын

@@geartweaker8518 You are absolutely right. Still a lot of opportunities out there to make great memories with! There are just some times that will remain in a certain view because the people in them are no longer in this life and the youth isn't there anymore. We're all different now. Now it's time for new and different memories. Thank you for the encouraging words. Those other memories in the past will always just hold a certain place and feeling to me.

@geartweaker8518

3 жыл бұрын

@@OceanMetTheSky Youre welcome man, I'm just pumped cos I get to go out with my buddies today for the first time since lockdown, so I'm just passing the good vibes on! I'm a sucker for nostalgia as well by the way. But I try to use it as fuel sometimes, to keep on doing cool new stuff and writing new chapters in my life story. Maybe I'll see you commenting on a 2020 nostalgia vid years from now 😁 peace out

@OceanMetTheSky

3 жыл бұрын

@@geartweaker8518 Thats awesome. I hope you got to enjoy your hangout with your friends and had some good times. Thats a long time to not see them. Yeah, you have to use it as fuel sometimes or else you just get stuck living in the past. But geez, those times were really so much better lol. Maybe ill catch you on a future video some day too! Peace ✌

@Suenami89

3 жыл бұрын

We never really get over that stage when we learn nothing lasts forever

Guys...it's obviously a typo. He meant *1508*. Michelangelo drinking Diet Pepsi and painting the Sixteenth Chapel, right after painting the other fifteen.

@jonathangutierrez4954

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't he drink the coke? That's why he was able to paint 1st to 14th Chapel in one night?

I wish I could go back to 1997-2001, best time of my life.

@betty123123

2 жыл бұрын

My childhood was pretty bad. I still can't help but feel nostalgia for some of the good moments. I wish I could try the whole thing again.

@unkono

2 жыл бұрын

Right around 2004 was the best time for me.

@fukngroovnkc3700

2 жыл бұрын

Good times...during the first moments of the year 2000 were you surprised nothing happened?

@stevenjsummerville9743

2 жыл бұрын

same

@vincentvarkor

2 жыл бұрын

2003-2007

"You got mail." 📨

@PhantomWorksStudios

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome to my evil lair... You've got frekin MAIL!

@96NightRider96

3 жыл бұрын

maybe i could check it if you would just GET OFF THE PHONE SO I CAN USE THE INTERNET! 😑

@sauceyjim2135

3 жыл бұрын

@@96NightRider96 lol wow remember those days now how did we do it 😂

@Ragitsu

3 жыл бұрын

@@96NightRider96 "Get off the phone!"

gosh thank goodness that nightmare I had about the year 2020 was only a dream. Now...I need to just check my email..

@joshcraft197

3 жыл бұрын

*electronic mail

@Daniel_________

2 жыл бұрын

If only!

as someone who was 23 in 1998 i enjoy how 80s most vaporwave stuff actually is... 1998 was prime blueberry iMac days

@Hondeer

3 жыл бұрын

'The files are *IN* the Computer!!!'

@onkadoodle510

3 жыл бұрын

Funny... I was born in 1998 and I just turned 23 last week.

@ordinaryhand

3 жыл бұрын

@@onkadoodle510 luke. i am your father

@dubmusik304

3 жыл бұрын

And Gateway 2000 for the PC people haha

@sm5728

2 жыл бұрын

Who else owned purple f=inflatable furniture, a diskman, and thought rollerblades were IT? lol. I'm outtie!

In 1998... I thought Dark City was the best new movie, Cowboy Bebop was brand new, my mp3 jams were from Aphex Twin, my shirts came from Hot Topic, my friends pretended they were hackers, we all played Half-Life and StarCraft, and America felt pretty great.

I think what’s happening here is, it’s 1995-96, and someone who never left the 80s is surfing the future internet on their old Macintosh from ‘84.

@Amy_Mi6

Жыл бұрын

My thoughts exactly! And maybe 'Mad About You' is on somewhere in the background 🥰

@Kawsaki

Жыл бұрын

@@Amy_Mi6 Ha yes 😁

The days before I was an addict. I had so many friends back then, and so much energy. I'm only 31 now, but I feel like I'm in my 70s. I wonder if those happy days will ever come back.

@user-vg5jb2qh9k

3 жыл бұрын

I am an addict now too. And I am lost. Nothing can save me no more. I lost everything possible. But sometimes I need music like this to remember the better days.

@lucenceparency7870

3 жыл бұрын

​@@user-vg5jb2qh9k You understand. I hope things look up for us. But if not, at least we have this window to the past.

@VintageFlowers

2 жыл бұрын

Don't lose hope guys, other people made it out of their addiction before. Not saying it's easy but it's definitely possible.

@lucenceparency7870

2 жыл бұрын

@@VintageFlowers Thank you for the encouragement, kind stranger. It makes me feel hopeful.

@chucksucks8640

2 жыл бұрын

Those days can come back for you.

This aesthetic feels more mid to late-'80s than 1998, to be honest. Good mix though.

@krisyeo

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, pretty much everything in the video is from way before 98. Floppy disks? An 80s can of Pepsi? That Mac!?

@prevarikator

3 жыл бұрын

maybe it's because this is remembering the memory of the 80's in 1998

@travtravhaha

3 жыл бұрын

@@krisyeo Definitely still had plenty of floppy disks floating about in 1998, all computers would still have a floppy drive too. But still yea strong 80s vibe here

@dubmusik304

3 жыл бұрын

@@krisyeo The only place you'd find that Mac in 1998 was an outdated high school library haha. 1998 was all about Gateway 2000 and their cowprint!

@xelestial_sky

3 жыл бұрын

@@krisyeo We definitely still used floppy disks even up until I graduated in 2007, CDs hadn't come about just yet. But that's the only accurate thing.

I was 5 years old in 1998...i remember playing my Gameboy and watching Toy Story in elementary school. I wanna go back 😫

@YungSteambuns

3 жыл бұрын

same, had my gameboy color and mario deluxe, pokemon the movie had came out and got my free mewtwo promo card...

@bobobob1230

3 жыл бұрын

yes the pokemon movie ;'D made my parents sit through that lmao

@Monkofmagnesia

2 жыл бұрын

I was 29!!!!

I'm so glad I found this. Being born in the 80's and growing up in the 90's was the best. This music takes me back and I love it. 😍

1998....13 years old. Couldn't wait to be older...

@PenceFamilyGaming

3 жыл бұрын

How wrong we were.

@RetroPlayerOne

3 жыл бұрын

For real though

@equasimilione6493

3 жыл бұрын

3 years old! DEFINITELY couldn't wait to be older... XD

@Suralin0

3 жыл бұрын

Same. I just wish I'd been able to enjoy that time better while it lasted.

@SoulnSensual

3 жыл бұрын

@@Suralin0 Absolutely

Vaporwave is the only type of music that relaxes me enough to stay focus and doesn't make me sleepy, I love it. btw, in 98 I was a tiny 1 year old human.

@bereruter0

3 жыл бұрын

same, puts me in a right good place mentally. i woulda been 2 in 98 :P

@nootnoot9842

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, we're elder zoomers like how early 80s kids are elder millennials

@vincentvarkor

3 жыл бұрын

I was born in 1998

@rustygribbler1380

2 жыл бұрын

I was 4 years old

@xXluluchanelXx

Жыл бұрын

@@nootnoot9842 elder millennial, class of 2000. 😎

Why do I feel nostalgic for a time I wasn't even born in?

@alterbria

3 жыл бұрын

Because it was THAT uncomplicated and special :)

@electricbluetiramisu3713

3 жыл бұрын

Found the baby of this comment thread lol hope you’re doing alright in these absurd times. Just remember, most people exaggerate their good stories to sound more interesting or exciting so don’t go comparing yourself to other people because it’s like looking in a house of mirrors for a clear reflection

@ZalemMoon

3 жыл бұрын

This video is definitely 80s, 1992 at most. Most of the 90s were like the early 2000s.

@Napash.Masharath

3 жыл бұрын

@@electricbluetiramisu3713 nah life before the 2000's was absolutely a fucking vibe!

@LydiaKrow

2 жыл бұрын

Because you were told how awesome it was and you want that for yourself. :\ Sending positive thoughts your way.

1998, i was 8 and my sister was just born... it was one of the greatest times of my life, loads of friends, bully turned to trusted confidante amongst my friends, beverly hills 90210 was still a thing even though we were living in italy, we were just getting ready to move ... awesome times.

Didn't expect these emotions from this.

Late 80s/early 90s: Playing the Secret of Monkey Island and other epic video games, a promising Cyberspace rises (unfortunately became the commercial Internet later on), wearing t-shirts with bright neon colours, watching T-2: Judgment Day and many other sci-fi movies, having parties in houses and discos, people without social media, cell phones, digital clouds, etc. Happy times. San Junipero/Miami Vice-like days. Sad that younger people of today never lived this epic era. Just a melancholic nostalgic message from a 50-year old fart.

I remember thinking I was a bad ass going on the AOL chat rooms. I would swear and say rude stuff. It got reported and my dad was notified somehow and I got grounded and banned from the computer hahaha.

@alanm6o9

3 жыл бұрын

Lmfao!

@tentimetex

3 жыл бұрын

You were so cool......lol

@silentforest2894

3 жыл бұрын

This absolutely creased me…love it!

@StepSoftlyGhost

2 жыл бұрын

I had some kind of .exe that flooded chat rooms with crazy ascii art. Somehow we got a letter in the post with a warning from AOL that if I did it again I'd be banned. I got in so much shit off my mum. 😂

@skiptotheend

2 жыл бұрын

@@StepSoftlyGhost hahaha. Glad I wasn't the only one. Pretty sure they put snippets of my conversations into an email for my dad to read. Oops

And we just got a second hard-line. See you in the chat rooms.

This feels way more 1988 than 1998

@thegrimyeaper

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, 98 was too bland to even get a video dedicated to it.

@garlandstrife

3 жыл бұрын

@@thegrimyeaper 98 had Y2k aesthetic, not bland at all. Probably the last good and original mainstream aesthetic movement.

@StinkyGreenBud

2 жыл бұрын

Who really cares? People were not this freaking anal about everything back then so get off it.

@meganmueller

2 жыл бұрын

@@twistedmonkey17 because the creator changed the title from 98 to 91

@duewhit310

9 ай бұрын

Carrabyinn queen Now we're sharin the same dream

It's a shame you don't realize you're in the good old days until you're no longer in the good old days. I was 6 years old in 1998. We'd gotten the PS1 recently and I was opening presents on my b-day hoping and praying that it was gonna be a Crash Bandicoot game.

@YuukiTakemoto1996

3 жыл бұрын

You got Metal Gear Solid, didn't you?

@moniquegainey3292

3 жыл бұрын

This was us

@nyoom7495

3 жыл бұрын

@@YuukiTakemoto1996We got a bunch of different games over the years, CB games, NFS games, Rayman games, bunch of demo discs, Pandemonium 1 and 2, Tony Hawk's, Syphon Filter, Splinter Cell, Tombi etc. My brother has spent extraneous time and money to rebuild the library we had because many games were either lost or scratched beyond playability. He also picked up a whole slew of games that we always wanted as kids but never got.

@joshcraft197

3 жыл бұрын

@@nyoom7495 siphon filter was the coolest thing--ironically, until the first splinter cell came out

@AQUAnetMusic

2 жыл бұрын

Today will become the "good ol' days" eventually. Try to think of the present day the same way you'd look back on past times.

Ah, the good ol days when you rested your VHS tapes on your Mac, no VCR in sight.

@ericdleon

3 жыл бұрын

How else you gonna keep the computer from falling over? You must be too young to remember.

@SenorMoose

3 жыл бұрын

@@ericdleon Oh how I wish that were the case

@ericdleon

3 жыл бұрын

@@SenorMoose I hear ya.

@obsidiansea

3 жыл бұрын

With no keyboard either.

@ericdleon

3 жыл бұрын

@@obsidiansea The fuck you gonna do with one of those? Tweet? Not in 1998 :()

I was 14 y/o driving my golf cart around the country club where we lived. Lots of awesome Nintendo, Dreamcast, PlayStation, and PC. The PeeCee was a 266 mhz HP in my room. I had no supervision on that bad boy. I would just burn CD's, take the golf cart out and ride around with my best friend, Dustin. I was spoiled and got to do endless things most kids only dream of. Those days rocked. But every day is a gift. It's fun to look back, but important to drink in the present and know this is our time to be alive.

I was born in 82 and man I miss the 90s. I didn’t know about AOL being around that early tho. Lovely mix.

@Amy_Mi6

Жыл бұрын

Fellow '82-er here 🙋‍♀️ Best year to be born 🙌😄

I feel like the last decade of internet culture has just been applying Tim & Eric's vision.

@SoundStation420

3 жыл бұрын

welcome to the innernette

@rcbees2998

3 жыл бұрын

@@SoundStation420 all on one CD-ROM!

@BilliamBillion

3 жыл бұрын

103 websites on one disc

@hahahaetc.6983

3 жыл бұрын

entropy

@GOODLUCKMUSIC8

2 жыл бұрын

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i wonder where all my internet friends are today, they all just went offline one by one :')

@LoveDayandAge

3 жыл бұрын

This hits me hard...

@davidd9707

3 жыл бұрын

Right in the feels man.. "Last online: 8 years ago"

@cristianocaravaggio2731

3 жыл бұрын

sometimes I think whatever happened to all my friends online. I hope they are all well. I will never get the chance to meet them.

@robertmain5079

3 жыл бұрын

they're still there, growing and living beautiful lives just like you are. you may have lost contact physically, but any emotional ties will never fade.

@DrSaav-my5ym

3 жыл бұрын

well, better than losing all your friends in real life

I can’t believe 1991 was 30 years ago, where does time go

Man, that picture invokes feelings of much simpler times.

How many people had a stack of those Polaroid VHS jackets on their shelf somewhere? Family memories, school events, episodes of Twin Peaks.

that first song 0:00 bart graft - faces, is like my born-in-1989, quixotic idea of what the late-80's/early-90's sounded like.

@AlisonBryen

2 жыл бұрын

I was born in in 1984. It certainly evokes my childhood trips to shopping malls/multiplex cinemas etc during the late 1980s. Also reminds me of pizza parties in Pizza Hut and Happy Meals.

@GOODLUCKMUSIC8

2 жыл бұрын

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@BlairMan89

2 жыл бұрын

Couldn’t agree more. After going through childhood and hearing music like this in restaurants, shopping malls, early computer games, the weather channel, the public access channel, documentaries, etc.; I think a lot of the tones and notes of music from that time have resonated deep into our psyche. When listened to in our later years, it creates a nostalgic sense of security and happy memories; a yearn for a much simpler time back when the world was a much different (and in my opinion, happier) place.

@LetsFindOut1

2 жыл бұрын

@@BlairMan89 man you just nailed that explanation of where the fondness comes from. that sounds so accurate that it's the unconscious link between our childhood sense of security and the vaguely similar sounds across all the media we were constantly exposed to. You might already known them, but that's probably why i enjoy boards of canada so much.

This is great. Though, the funny thing about nostalgia is, if you actually went back, things would not be as great as you might remember - at least, that been my experience. In a way, that makes passing time seem less painful. But, even so, still a nostalgia junkie.

@johntylosky8506

Жыл бұрын

the phase "passing time" means you don't want to be in that moment. be here now

@johntylosky8506

Жыл бұрын

phrase *

I have everything I ever wanted - and I still want to go back

@darylroll

3 жыл бұрын

I feel this. I work hard and have money and I feel betrayed that it hasn't completed me

@BaquePhotography

3 жыл бұрын

1991 sucked, bel biv devoe on the radio. Crazy Girbaud jeans. TV went off the air at midnight and maybe they had infomercials but probably just played the national anthem and went to static. I had to subscribe to two dozen magazines to try to keep the boredom away. When was the last time you were really bored? In 1991 you could be BORED.

@cristiplopeanu

3 жыл бұрын

@@BaquePhotography Boredom is not a bad thing. It leads to learning and discovery (including self-discovery). Entertainment is purely noise that keeps you busy but stressed all the time, flooding the brain with an amount of information it can't properly process.

@BaquePhotography

3 жыл бұрын

@@cristiplopeanu But when was the last time YOU were bored?

@puhbrox

2 жыл бұрын

@@darylroll Aint it weird how you just can't have enough these days?

That Apple Macintosh was already 14 years old in 1998 and considered retro

"Mooooooom, Brian is hogging the phone line again!" Ahh, the memories of dial-up era

I love how the mid-80s is trying to hijack the 90s now.

@MinnesotaBA

2 жыл бұрын

I feel like there was alotta' bleed-over from the 80s into the 90s, but as I say that I realize maybe that's just cuz my first 20 years was all 80s/90s (born in '79). On the other hand, it dawns on me that the 80s and 90s are almost a packaged deal, and the more I think about it, I can see that in other decades as well: 20s/30s, 40s/50s, 60s/70s, 80s/90s, 2000s/20teens.. . . Hmm, I feel like there's something to that, maybe not tho, Idk 🤔

@Steril707

2 жыл бұрын

In this video 100%. in 1998 House music and Techno & Rave was already outdated again, and no one used an old cube mac anymore. Very weird aesthetic choice.

Cassettes, Nintendo NES, Sega Genesis, CDs, VHS, Commodore 64, Toshiba T1000 laptop, video stores, MTV, Radio Shack, Magnum P.I., Knight Rider, Miami Vice, Air Wolf, Dallas ... I miss the 80s and early 90s

remember when you called AOL to cancel and they just wouldn't let you

@GOODLUCKMUSIC8

2 жыл бұрын

Here's a meditative experience made for you. : kzread.info/dash/bejne/ioOMyc-ue8jclpc.html&lc=Ugw--VkzcS29anz7LO14AaABAg : ) ENJOY!

In the image the true spirit of the 80,s and 90,s (Macintosh, Floppy 1.44, VHS movie, Polaroid film of Kodak and radio...)

1997 freshmen in high school. First car/first crush. Some of the greatest times of my life.

I was 7 years old back in 1998 and remember it as it were yesterday. Some of the songs on this playlist are extremely nice.

@saudade118

3 жыл бұрын

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I don't know why but this one always hits me hard in the feelings... I have listened to this whole track probably 1000 times. Thank you so much for posting this. When I feel down or nostalgic, this video always makes me feel better, and reminds me of the simpler times. Lets me know that everything will be ok. Peace and Love to everyone.

@CicoinTokyo777

2 жыл бұрын

I feel the same especially with the first track

@devben2448

2 жыл бұрын

@@CicoinTokyo777 Exactly!! The first track for me too.

@RetroPlayerOne

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah the first track has the same effect on me! It hits you hard with your feels. Thanks for commenting and listening!

@devben2448

2 жыл бұрын

@@RetroPlayerOne Thanks for making and posting!

everything is all 90's I LOVE IT

@RetroPlayerOne

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton Nelson! I really appreciate it!

Oh GOD! That Polaroid VHS alone was enough to send me sprawling!

I've never used AOL, but that image nearly ruptured my nostalgia nerve...

This looks and sounds more like 1986 than 1998. In 1998 iMac was introduced and started looking more modern lol.

@Mute67

2 жыл бұрын

I'll agree.. the soundtrack reminds me more of 1986 than 1998. More like Miami Vice sountrack especially the first one.

Just splurged for a DSL---it's web surfin' time!

@chungies

3 жыл бұрын

A DSL, just one.

@aaronredacted6377

3 жыл бұрын

@@chungies Yep! Screaming down the internet freeway at ~ 1 Mbit/s. Eat my dust! =D

Y'all were some early adopters I didn't have AOL until at least the mid 90s

Badass mix, but 1998 would’ve made fun of this aesthetic. What we refer to as Vaporwave was considered outdated asf in 1998 lol

All y'all crying historical inaccuracy need to understand that anachronism is part of Vaporwave. Vaporwave reimagines and recreates the past, resulting in a dreamy liminal atmosphere that so many of us love.

I used to love the music you would find on the website of the hotel your family had chosen to go on holiday with. It was midi file stuff and really cheesy, but i would look at it for ages before we went, imagining the pool and restaurant. The music summed up my early internet memories.

I spent many sunsets on AOL in 1998. It was so primitive compared to now but it was so much fun. Now everyone's constantly so angry over BS and ready to kill each other on Facebook and Twitter. It wasn't like that back then at all. Edit: It's been changed to sunset in 1991, which is more accurate but I'm not complaining. I spent many sunsets in 1991 parked on my parent's bed watching The Weather Channel. The music, especially the song at 7:40 reminds me of it. Remember when they had all the old geezers on there that actually knew about weather? I also spent quite a few 1991 sunsets at Hampton Beach NH. All the businesses then had bars on the windows and there was graffiti everywhere. Now it's slowly turning into a high rent district, yuppyland.

I am lucky to be brought to this world in 91 and able to experience the 90s kid and see the world before the internet took it over

Born in 90, i porbably was sorting my pokemon cards . Then i hear my friends play outside after dinner.. best feeling to join them and do stupid kids stuff XD

@Allthingslife30

3 жыл бұрын

Pogz, crazy bones,happy meal toys , beanie baby’s and action figures ,heelys, Pokémon cards , game boys , just your friends ,imagination and all the time in the world. It hard when you get older you see what’s going on and I feel most older people feel that feeling of depression . We saw was the world was before this change , just like each generation, but I feel us 90s kids were the last generation who weren’t fully immersed in technology. The kids of today I feel are so desensitized to life without technology because they don’t know life without it . I just hope for the best for us all. Lol sorry man I just feel a certain way reading your comment and then listening to the music and thinking about my own past and what’s going on now . It sucks honestly I wish I could go back to the 90s when I didn’t feel the pain of losing so much . The pain of addiction , suffering, rejection, losing your best friends , family members . I wish I could go back and just start over but life doesn’t work that way . You can let your past eat you alive , or you can grow from it . Even when you grow , the pain remains , you just learn how to live without it ruining the rest of your life .

@Daxx219

3 жыл бұрын

@@Allthingslife30 yeah man, it feels like the world was smaller, and nothing changed so much like today. Like a little bubble. Its crazy how fast we have to adapt and always be on the left Lane today. I wish you a happy and long life my friend!

@berserkblastoise

3 жыл бұрын

Born in '88 but same. We'd hang out outside with our Game Boys and play Pokémon. 🙏🏼

@Allthingslife30

3 жыл бұрын

@@berserkblastoise much love fam , I’ll give ya a sub ☺️

@FreneticZetetic

3 жыл бұрын

Born in 88, so I was 10 here. 5th grade. DAMN. That feeling can't be replicated! Running back outside around late afternoon, playing into the sunset; you had until the street lights came on. What a universal cue for people of our generation everywhere. POGS, Crazy Bones, GameBoy Color, Attitude Era/Monday Night Wars WWF/WCW...

its 2006 and you're on msn messanger after bedtime synthwave next please this gives me precursor vibes im sure you can craft something up

Yep....21 years old and hittin' the clubs - 2Livecrew, Vanilla Ice, Wreckx in Effect, Rob Base - and cruisin the ladies in the IROC Camaro. Didn't know how good we had it!

Playing premium AOL games like Dragon's Gate and getting yelled at by my dad after he saw the internet bill. Good times.

I see a pattern in the comments. 'Life was so simple back then'. I get the vibe of what you're saying, but am I the only one whose life hasn't dramatically changed towards complexity? What changed for you? Is it because you are no longer able to do those cherished child/teen years activities, or something else? And, do you like it, or would you rather go back to the simple days and do something differently to steer yourself towards a simple life by the time you hit this age again? In my case, I still live with my family and I have a job that I get out of at the same time I got off school as a kid. I have a 'relationship' of sorts where none of us wants to leave our families or burden ourselves with unnecessary commitment, but we do live close and make it work well. Thanks to all of this, I have a similar amount of free time to what I had as a minor, and I so I spend my afternoons and nights with either my family, chatting with friends or my special one, and playing video games, it's just a PC and a Switch instead of a PS1 and a GBA these days. Emotionally speaking, I've always been very prone to anxiety, so no huge change in the larger scale. The few changes I do resent now are coming to terms with the fact that time isn't infinite, the ever-present bills and debts, realizing that I most likely have ADHD explaining many things over my life, but they are just different problems to the ones I had back then. The stakes are bigger, but not extremely so. For context I'm a girl and close to hitting my late 20s. Tell me about yourself.

@hyperchango

2 жыл бұрын

If anything, my life has actually got easier and more enjoyable. I'm 37, no kids, I pay the bills, and I do whatever the f*ck I want with my life. Sometimes I feel like wandering through the city late at night, and I just do it. Sometimes I feel like getting in my car and disappearing for a whole weekend in the mountains, and I do. Who's gonna stop me? Sometimes I feel like working on something I like until I fall asleep, and just do so. Hell, life as an adult is actually pretty awesome!

Wrong year, great soundtrack. This would be at home in John Carpenter backing track. 1998 was all alternative rock and industrial.

The 80,s and the 90, s is a golden decades of the music, games, movies, animes and manga

Oh, the 90s... sometimes I think it is wrong when people argue that nostalgia is the sole reason for why you would feel that things have gotten worse. Wasn't it ACTUALLY better a few decades ago? Wasn't it REALLY nicer only 15 years ago? Of course nothing on Earth has ever been perfect, but... I just don't know.

Woah I feel way too nostalgic for someone who wasn't even born then

@Hondeer

3 жыл бұрын

That's called Hiraeth.

@lesnuitssanskimwilde883

3 жыл бұрын

I remember that in the late 80s in france, the late 60s were seen as the golden era: the hippies, the "good" drugs, the summer of love, the style, the very low unemployement, the sense of freedom...

@xelestial_sky

3 жыл бұрын

LOL that explains why you feel nostalgic bc you have no idea what 1988 was like. I was born in 1988 and this vibe had already died by the time I had my first memory. 1998 was about futuristic stuff with the impending millennium upon us.

@Hondeer

3 жыл бұрын

@@xelestial_sky Yup. '98-'01 was an interestingly positive time until....

@stormraysdad470

2 жыл бұрын

@@xelestial_sky Hello fellow 1988! 1998 was N64...The world seemed like a big party! Maybe I was young? Things felt more stable than today. 1999 was a hella good year XD Y2K, any one? Garbage pop bands :P

I was born in 95 but..gid dam this hits like I'm relieving old memories

How does time move so fast.... so many memories fading... so many smiles.. dust in the wind... sands in an hourglass... hold on to these moments.. you don't realize how quickly they're gone.. never to come again... to all my friends, family, and to anyone... I will never forget you.

The nostalgia is too much 💔

Just a heads up- in 1998 we were listening to John Digweed and Paul Oakenfold Essential Mixes from Napster while we were on AOL ;) **EDIT: Still gave it a like even though it's more like 1985 than 1998 :)

@speakertreatz

3 жыл бұрын

but if the TV was on in the background late at night, the music coming from a shopping channel probably sounded like this

@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336

3 жыл бұрын

@@speakertreatz pretty much 😄

@speakertreatz

3 жыл бұрын

@@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336 two great choices of Essmix by the way. I didn't even know about Napster in '98, I was still recording the Essmix every week straight from radio to minidisc with an optical cable. Some transitional tech there.

@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336

3 жыл бұрын

@@speakertreatz I was in the states so options were limited for trance addicts. All hail Pete Tong lol

@speakertreatz

3 жыл бұрын

@@unicornsandrainbowsandchic2336 Absolutely! He gave us all so much..

80's vibes for life

It's 1991, windows95 is still in the making, and Vapor95 is already invading Macintoshes.

In 1994 I was 10, and remember the good old days when life was simple, just having fun with friends till dark.

Okay, this is a truly brilliant mix right here, makes me feel the wonder and joy of the 90's again

There are tons of PL of vaporwave mix on here KZread but this one is only my favorite. Just perfect.

I turned 25 the day before yesterday. I don't know those times, but it's like I lived them. I added this playlist this summer, and even though I've only been listening to it occasionally for six months, I've already had a lot of fond memories of it.

Don't miss the dial up but miss playing with my friends outside during the summer.

Gran Turismo sounds in that one track, for a second I was 15 again, sat in my room smashing a Nissan Skyline R32 (4WD) around the test circuit again trying to beat my fastest lap... Thanks for the nostalgia trip

This is so Beautiful. ❤️❤️❤️😊😌

@RetroPlayerOne

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Soluchi!

I was born in 1998. If only I had the body and mind that I have today, to see all those people still alive and well that are now gone. Too see my grandfather again and do things together and tell him what i never told him. Miss him a lot.

I remember my first time on AOL. It was around 1996. A small group of my friends and I sat huddled around my Compaq Persario and it's tiny 14" monitor. We sat and waited for a nude pic of Pamela Anderson to download. Line by line, we watched as the picture slowly downloaded. Everything was in slow motion. Beads of sweat were starting to form. We were sitting in anticipation of something great. The Holy Grail of all nudes, Pamela Anderson. When the picture finally revealed the first bit of boob, we cheered and high-fived like our team had just won the World Series. When the picture finally downloaded, I printed copies for all my friend's on my Cannon Bubble Jet. We all treated that picture like it was Wayne Gretzky's rookie card. It's one of my fondest memories of my youth.

I was 13 in '98 and I can concur, everything was neon blue framed, shaded pink and flock of seagulls were in fashion. However, tracking wasn't that bad.

Thats more late 80s but its still cool 😁

@persapphone

3 жыл бұрын

or early 90s.

1:30 Bart Graft vibes ❤️❤️. I wanna fall into deep space listening to this , that melody is everything

In 1991 most of us still weren't online. Online shopping hadn't yet become a thing. I believe a lot of Macs were still monochrome, as well.

I remember 98 being the longest year of my life for some reason. It was a good year in my life tho. good times...

In 1998... I was nonexistent... Thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

When I listen this I feel incredibly nostalgic.. I don’t even know what is this feeling. I imagine myself in the 80s in LA beach with the sunset..

OH MY GOD this is so Good! And Nostalgic! Thank you!!!

I remember my cousin showing off her first computer in the early '90s, a few months before I got my own. It had AOL IM, and I recall being intrigued by the ability to have conversations with people who were theoretically on the other side of the planet--and how she used it to trade innuendos with middle-school classmates. Honestly, I was more impressed with the Print Shop software that let you make your own greeting cards. I also remember thinking how obnoxious it was that you couldn't use the Internet and the phone at the same time, and how someone somewhere needed to fix that. Oh, and maybe fix it so it didn't make that godawful grinding noise when you dialed up?

I love the vibes of this video so much! It's perfect to relax and go to sleep to. Makes me feel like I'm sinking back in time as I relax

This picked it all up. The moment, the sunset of the 90s vice feel. The room to day dream. You where sucked into both the experience but where the imagination was still running wild back then.

Was just starting high school in '91, and my family was too poor to have a computer to use AOL. So I made other great memories from that care-free era. Han Solo was my childhood hero, and I had some offline adventures that would've made the ol' scoundrel proud (if he were real, of course!). lol