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If someone could create your "Ultimate Nostalgia Room" - what would it contain? (lemmy.zip)
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So the rules are pretty loose on this.

Basically if you could source certain items or media into a room together, things that were all particularly nostalgic to you - what would go in there?

It could have particular retro games consoles, loaded with particular games, plugged into the CRT TV you used to have in your bedroom.

It could have your old family PC loaded with MSN Messenger and Limewire, or access to old forums.

It could have certain albums on CD / cassette / vinyl played through your parents’ old hifi.

Maybe certain films you had taped on VHS and watched a million times, and the adverts you always remember in-between.

Perhaps certain meals, snacks, drinks laid out. Maybe ones you can’t buy anymore.

Certain items of furniture… certain wallpapers… certain aromas or perfumes… old toys…

Nothing is too old or too recent as long as it’s nostalgic for you personally. And things don’t have to all come from the same era, they can be mix and match.

What goes in your personal nostalgia room?

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'd go back to my old Hurricane Katrina flood salvage computer setup, specifically the evolved upgraded version by about 2008. I literally had 18 different cables plugged into it, with multiple devices connected throughout the entire trailer we lived in.

  • 2 monitors
  • A printer and a scanner
  • Stereo speakers
  • TV tuner with 2 televisions, a VCR, and an FM radio antenna
  • Game controller
  • Ethernet
  • Keyboard and mouse, of course
  • External card reader

And probably a couple other things I forgot.

Internally...

  • 5 hard drives

  • 3 disc burners

  • Floppy drive

  • 2.53GHz Pentium 4 CPU

  • 1 whopping gigabyte of RAM, 333MHz I think

And you better bet your ass I had lots of music, movies, games and emulators too, even had multiplayer sessions across different rooms.

Man, lots of weed was smoked back then...

[–] gustofwind@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh to have the things we lost in floods 🥲

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I do still have a lot of these games, ROMs, programs, music and videos from back then actually, as I was heavily involved in my area salvaging flooded hardware and data right after Katrina.

Within like 2 weeks, using WD-40 and a pressure washer for the circuit boards, I estimate that I was able to get about 80% of the electronics that came my way working again.

Mechanical parts like hard drives might as well be considered a loss in the long run, but if addressed quickly, cleaning the controller board separately often allowed data recovery and backup.

I don't have it all anymore, but I do still have a lot..