#Technostalgia
In Mario Kart Wii, several course textures have strings of seemingly arbitrary numbers in their filenames, as shown below.

Interpreting these as dates in Japan's YY-MM-DD format reveals a timeline spanning August 2006 to November 2007, fitting the game's development timeline.
September 27, 2026 at 12:43 AM
Basically done! Waiting on RAM and the m.2 but those are the most expensive parts. This build has been a fucking blast.

Thank you to
@deceased-bunny.bsky.social , @glopossum.com , @eviolite.bsky.social ,
and @serotines.bsky.social for the stickers!!

#technostalgia #y2ktech #y2kfuturism
February 17, 2026 at 9:05 PM
So I clearly love tech that’s very tactile and moves. A lot of my inspiration comes from acounts who share obscure examples but my real ref search is video examples. This stuff is built to be handled, you need to see how it’s ment to be held and how the light reacts. #reference
The best technologies of the 2000s.#retro#TechNostalgia #VintageTech #nostalgia
YouTube video by Retro Mobile
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December 3, 2025 at 2:10 AM
There was quite an old computer in the office of this abandoned department store. These were for the reel to reel data storage it used. #abandoned #urbex #photography #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #OldSchoolTech #TechNostalgia #RetroGadgets
February 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🎧🧵 Emergency in OR #1987
Patient: Tape Deck
Diagnosis: Spaghetti guts
Treatment: One trusty No. 2 pencil 📝
Prognosis: Rewound and ready to party.

If you know, you know. If you don’t… ask someone with a landline. 😅

#FlashbackFriday #TechNostalgia #CassetteCulture #RetroTech
May 30, 2025 at 6:30 AM
I recently explained to my son that mice used to have a literal ball inside, and cleaning it was a regular ritual. The blank look on his face? Yeah, I felt like Elrond reminiscing about ancient times. 🧙‍♂️🖱️ #FeelingAncient #TechNostalgia #Throwback #BackInMyDay
December 4, 2024 at 6:08 PM
Peak mid-2000s phone design. The RAZR V3 was impossibly thin, ridiculously stylish, and somehow made answering a call feel like an event.
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#MotorolaRAZR #RAZRV3 #Motorola #RetroTech #VintageTech #RetroPhone #MobileHistory #OldPhones #Y2K #TechNostalgia #2000sTech
September 22, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Homescreen layout on Android Jellybean. March 2013.

#Android #Holo #AndroidDesign #UI #UIDesign #TechNostalgia
March 12, 2026 at 3:14 PM
This is the most important book written about technology in the last decade.

There is this type of technostalgia that people like Sam Altman invoke to make it seem like ChatGPT is akin to the commodore64 or Apple 2e, but it’s not.

AI is a networked surveillance system masquerading as a toy.
I'm reading Karen Hao's "Empire of AI" and the small, evocative details cementing the relationship btwn OpenAI and empire-building - OpenAI naming the secretive deal-making process btwn the company and Microsoft "Oregon Trail" as well as OpenAI moving into The Pioneer Building - are *chef's kiss*
August 5, 2025 at 10:32 PM
My random #Tuesday thought. "A riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma, tucked behind the fridge."

Felt like something I first heard on #Mplayer… or maybe Winston Churchill whispering through static....

#technostalgia #riddleoftheday #throwbackvibes #mysterymonday #vintagevibes #retrotech
May 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Opening of “Technostalgia. Afterlives of 80s-90s’ Digital Technologies” at the Rotondes in Luxembourg with the brilliant Valerie Schaefer

@c2dh.uni.lu @fnr.lu @uni.lu @dgb-history.bsky.social
June 18, 2026 at 3:57 PM
So I got my hands on this powermac g4 MDD that I plan on modifying to fit modern PC hardware for a server I wanna build.

#y2kfuturism #technostalgia #frutigeraero
January 15, 2026 at 1:05 AM
One of the coolest business smartphones of its era. The P1i had that wonderfully weird UIQ mix of touchscreen, physical keypad, and tiny jog dial — very 2007, very Sony Ericsson.

#SonyEricssonP1i #SonyEricsson #UIQ #Symbian #RetroTech #VintagePhone #MobileHistory #TechNostalgia #OldPhones
September 25, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Floppy disks render #TechNostalgia #OldTech #Diskette
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
A hoot: "Drawing on concepts such as zombie media, technostalgia, and speculative design," an LLM hooked up to a 1980s DDR Robotron Erika typewriter with "no screen and no delete or backspace:" the "mechanical body of late socialism animated by a post-digital ghost."
arxiv.org/pdf/2512.16285
December 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Arriving (late, because of Deutsche Bahn) in lovely #Luxembourg 🇱🇺 for #Technostalgia conference. Looking forward to meeting my wonderful colleagues and to our discussions! #Media #History #Technology
Technostalgia. Afterlives of 80s-90s’ Digital Technologies
This international conference is organised by the CD-Hist team (in parallel to the “CD-ROM. One Click, One Story” exhibition. It seeks to explore how digital and computing pasts are remembered, revive...
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June 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Got my GF this digital camera that uses CD's, so when i gave it to her I ensured that the disk was full of nudes.
#transfem #emo #technostalgia #y2k #nullo
January 13, 2026 at 10:31 PM
Throwback to my #HomeLab days with this Intel NUC cluster! 🚀 Found these photos from the 2015 Atlantis era — good times experimenting, building and solving Storage Performance issues. Anyone else remember those days? #TechNostalgia
November 21, 2024 at 3:08 PM
That moment when the iMac G3 is behind museum glass and you realise you are now a historical witness.

We didn’t just surf the web....we dialed up to it.

#FlashbackFriday #TechNostalgia #iMacG3 #MillennialMoment #DigitalArchaeology
June 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I highly recommend #Enshitification! My 22person class read it today and had so many new insights about media, regulation, and technostalgia about the opportunities not taken.

It’s a must read for every college student right now.

us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Enshittification
Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now. Here’s why, and here’s how we can disenshittify it.We’re living through the Enshittocen...
us.macmillan.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:00 AM