Tag: nostalgia
#oneaday Day 766: Verify your age
There's a meme going around on Bluesky today where you write "verify your age" and then post something in text or image form that you remember from Times Past™. In the absence of anything particularly interesting happening today, I thought I would do a bumper crop of these in one post. So prepare to verify...
Homesick for virtual places
The "Years Ago Today" plugin on my blog just reminded me that I linked to GTA V GeoGuesser four years ago. I clicked just for a laugh, oh, maybe I still remember, haha - and I wasn't really prepared what a deep feeling of nostalgia and (I guess?) homesickness this would trigger.A long time ago...
#oneaday Day 755: The lost art of going to buy a game
Yesterday, I talked generally about the impact PlayStation had on me and my friendship group thanks to stone-cold classics like Ridge Racer, Tekken and Final Fantasy VII. Today I want to talk about another aspect of that time which I have fond memories of -- but which hasn't been a thing for some years now,...
#oneaday Day 754: Late '90s promise
As I absorb the news that Sony is giving up on physical releases of games -- something I have had a good rant about at much more length over on MoeGamer, so please go read that -- I can't help but think back to the time PlayStation hit the scene, and the incredible amount of...
#oneaday Day 749: The lost decade
At therapy today, we got talking about how I think back extremely fondly on my time at sixth form -- to such a degree that I would brand that period of time as probably the happiest of my life -- and how I feel a curious... "closeness" to that time period, despite it being, at...
One last meal at this Old Spaghetti Factory
One last scoop of spumoni + 6 photos
CHILDHOOD: Hypercapitalist Nostalgia & Unsupervised Internet Access
My nostalgia is hypercapitalist. My nostalgia is the worst of the unregulated Internet. I cannot decouple my fondest memories from the corporations and the loss of innocence that produced them, and I'm not sure there's anything wrong with that.
Things That Shaped Me: HeadBone Zone
Before Subeta, before I knew I wanted to build communities, there was HeadBone Zone, a browser-based kids site that taught me everything about what the internet could be.
Of Xennials and Wordle
My son's casual comment during our nightly Wordle ritual led to a surprising discovery: I am supposedly a 'Xennial'. This sent me down a path of reminiscence, thinking about the long, quiet afternoons of my childhood and boredom.
Christmas on Repeat
Despite often being terrible, we watch the same holiday movies every year. Why's that? Well, it's not often about the movies—it's about our memories.
Whispers in the Dark: Gleam Edition
I used Bluesky's Jetstream and gleam to resurrect and old project I made for twitter.
Novel Check-in
Spare thoughts on the state of novelty and nostalgia from our in-house expert on both of those important (if oft-cast-aside) things.
Preserving the Web
jake.museum: an online collection of my web design and development work, from 2007 to the present day. But finding the source code was just the beginning. A lot has changed since 2007, and getting these old sites up and running again is not as simple as plopping the files on a server.
30 Years, 30 Songs
Ever since I read Bob Nystrom’s 40 Songs, I knew I wanted to write a list of my own. I’ve been procrastinating on it for a while, but “30 years” slips further away as I inch closer to 31, so it’s time to buckle down and do it.
Command Line
Nearly 40 years ago, DOS reshaped computing on the IBM PC. These days, nostalgia for that era—and a dose of fresh creativity—is keeping its legacy alive.