When did nostalgia begin for you?

[Spider2024]

This is for all my 90s/80s kids out there (or anyone else really). Can you pinpoint the moment or timeframe where nostalgia for music/tv/games/etc began to pique your interest? The point where, whether you liked the current stuff or not, stuff from the past just had that special affinity.

I'd say summer of 2006 for me. That summer I began to use iTunes, which helped me rediscover my CD collection. I also got high speed internet that summer, which helped me discover YouTube, as well as buy songs from iTunes, both new songs and classic songs.

One telling thing would be that, in 2006, my new celebrity crush was a singer who hadn't really made noise on the mainstream music scene for 5 years at that point. So that would qualify as nostalgic.

[mcmahonfan85]

probably end of high school or the year following that

[Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill]

Around the first year of University when I started reminiscing with my new friends about the 90s.

[Deleted]

2008 after high school graduation first year of college

[legendkiller1985]

During my first year of college. It started by my friends at the radio station introducing me to NES, SNES, and Sega emulation.

[Amazing Kitsune]

I have a very difficult time wrapping my head around this question. I mean, I'm into a lot of stuff that would be considered nostalgic now...older comics and classic videogames, for example--but I was always into them. I don't think it can accurately be called nostalgic because it's not like it's something I ever stopped being into.

[Deleted]

I got really into the 80s around 2002-2006.

DOS games and 80s pop music, mainly.

[MiLB Fan]

High school for me, starting in tenth grade.

The school I attended had at least one early dismissal a month for faculty meetings, in addition to long holiday breaks and several inservice days throughout the year. So I was home by myself a lot. One day I was browsing through some videos in the downstairs family room when I found all my Ninja Turtles tapes. So with no one else home I thought "hey, let's see if the tape still works and how much of it I remember." That became my favorite way to spend my days off, watching videos I hadn't seen in a very long time.

In college I discovered Jump The Shark and Retro Junk, furthering my love of nostalgia.

[Display Name]

Nostalgia started in like middle school for me.All of my favorite (entertainment type)things are still from the 80's.

[The Unconquered Sun]

nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

But for me I’d say shortly after I turned 30 I started to really miss the 90's. just as I had got over the shell shock we all went through after 9-11, I lost my father to cancer. I think it was my way coping, reaching back for a happier time for me. I remember saying to my girlfriend “I miss the 90's, things didn’t suck so much.”
I missed the music of the time most of all, except for the boy band era, I always pass that one off as a fluke.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

May 13, 2014 4:29:36 GMT -5 The Unconquered Sun said:

nostalgia ain't what it used to be...

When I was a kid, we knew what real nostalgia was. Not like kids these days.

[king1836]

When I turned 30

[wildojinx]

Even though i was born in 1979, i really started getting into the 80s in 94-95 as i could finally see all the stuff i wasnt allowed to see when i was too young (80s SNL, Slasher films, etc). And when i started getting into music, while i still liked lots of the contemporary music of the time, thanks to reading all those guides to music and such, it really got me interested in seeking out 70s and 80s music.

[Clash, Never a Meter Maid]

As early as when I was in high school I was interested in 80's crap.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

2002 or so, my brother and I would...mysteriously acquire...a lot of 90s hip hop and R&B.

[Hassan bin Sober]

First when Toonami debuted and seeing old cartoons like Voltron and Thundercats again after years.

Later in 2001/2002 when 80s toy properties such as G.I. Joe started to make come backs and talking to other people who enjoyed/collected these things online.

Then in 2004 I was watching Beavis and Butthead real late at night and started to feel nostalgic for middle school/high school and the 90s in general.

[Deleted]

When I was 18 and they started selling Old Skool Transformers and G.I. Joe shirts at the mall.

[Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen]

May 13, 2014 6:13:06 GMT -5 king1836 said:

When I turned 30

Ditto. I've had a bit of nostalgia for the past few years, but since turning 30 it seems to have really amped up.

[The Mark of Mark]

3rd year of college for me. The discovery of YouTube helped me track down a lot of the old shows I grew up with.