Liking things from the past?

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I must stop this! But here's what Midge Ure did before he got a proper job

Ghosts of Princes in Towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ_XarV6-aY

I'm a sort of trapped between both worlds. I'll take Bonnie & Clyde over Transformers any day, and Cowboy Bebop over Adventure Time, but I love postmodern fiction and poetry and would probably give up on NES Super Mario after the first two levels. Hell, I even still have an old CD player that I make regular use of - never had an iPod, and hopefully never will.

Have you tried looking at the indie music scene? There's some good stuff going on in there, a little mixing of old and new.

One thing of mine is to cling on to old technology. Don't know about America, but over here we had a video tape system called Betamax - hung onto that system for as long as possible. "Hipsters" are into this kind of thing, they'd be delighted by my collection of ancient mobile phones. I was steampunk before it existed.

Computers? I always buy the one from last year that no one trendy would be seen dead with, and my car is 20 years old.

Tell you one thing that was really good about the 60's: if you were holding a party you wrote a really old fashioned thing called a letter to invite people, and they then wrote back to say if they were coming or not. We used a very strange thing called the post to do this. Then, as if by magic, ALL the people who said that they were going to come actually showed up.

My family had one of these in 1964, which was cutting edge stuff back then:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/bhp/philips-reel-to-reel-recorder

that's a 4 track, ours was only 2.

Eventually, in 1967, I got my hands on something like this:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/DANSETTE-SENA ... 51ccf721ec

The Betamax was invented about the mid 1970s. A family in my neighborhood had one in 1977. We saw "Oh God!" on it. It was soon replaced by smaller VCR's.

Then there were "8-track tapes," and the aforementioned "reel-to-reel" tape recorders.

Then there was that "console" thing which was a combination TV, stereo radio, and record player.

When I watch the old shows, I get "in awe" over all the old phones and computers. Gives me a type of nostalgia and sometimes I reset my computer wallpaper to plain blue in honor of it.

For a very long time i was obsessed with anything from the 90's including music movies and tv shows. I still prefer 90's music and find a lot of the new music they are making these days to be awful with a few exceptions. I also really enjoy classic jazz music if that counts.

I had one of these Dan Dare Radio Station

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/vintage-boxed ... 5d562c6da8

Yes, I do. I really enjoy 90s sitcoms like "Home Improvement," "Roseanne" and "Seinfeld." They were hilarious shows and are still enjoyable today. I also enjoy lots of 80s stuff including music, TV and movies. For example, I'll watch a Miami Vice episode here and there; Don Johnson was great on the show!
I also have WAY more VHS tapes in my collection than DVD...with a few hundred VHS and a few dozen DVDs. Most are retail movies; some are home-recorded movies and TV shows that I've acquired over the years...many with vintage 80s/90s commercials. Those are fun to watch as well...and I'd rather have a commercial break from 1990 than have to deal with idiotic hipster ads one more time on TV today.

I did, but it was more of a phase.

I liked '80s shows (Seinfeld, Everbody Loves Raymond, Roseanne), '90s shows (Frasier, Friends, etc.), as far back as the '50s/'60s - stuff like Green Acres, Brady bunch, Happy Days, etc.

Also loved '70s-'90s music and still do. '80s pop and New Wave like Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, etc. '70s Disco and Funk like Ishley brothers, '90s Electronic Music and Trance and Pop/Dance music, early 2000's Pop Rock like Blink-182, etc.

But now no I'm mostly into more modern stuff.

I do like retro fashion too, from '50s to modern.

But like I said even though I still like these things I don't really focus on them much anymore.

The only thing I really passionate about anymore is Charmed though...

So, I guess I'm not the only one.

why would you be the only one.

Ye I really miss the 90's
Specially this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aV8DEJ8ydJQ

I had to wait to go online after 18:00 because then it was half price...and offcourse everyone went online at the same time. The good old days when it took minutes to open a webpage...those sure were the good old days...

I always prefer to wear a suit if I can get away with it which is partly but not entirely due my dislike of modern fashion(so much easier for everyone to just wear a suit or a dress).

I am also almost completely foreign to modern media such as music or pop-culture ( I just have no interest in it People are still surprised that i can not be bothered to learn some modern popular artists or actors name)

(i also prefer how mathematics and science was previously taught to most not all modern methods we had a good system and then we blew it...now i have to deal with stuff like common core...which is only a progression from the bad system before that. but i digress)