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Zillions of people. Usually it gets called steampunk (18xx) or dieselpunk (193x-194x). 195x-6x futurism usually ends up going very Googie. And we’re starting to
by egypturnash 7y ago
Zillions of people. Usually it gets called steampunk (18xx) or dieselpunk (193x-194x). 195x-6x futurism usually ends up going very Googie. And we’re starting to see 70s/80s retrofuturism, mostly I’d say the word associated with that is vaporwave.
More art than actual tech, and most of the tech is one-off hand-built stuff.
- Swizec 7y agoWould cyberpunk count as 90s retrofuturism? Or have we decided it hits too close to home for present times?
- irscott 7y agoNah cyberpunk is it's own thing and the aesthetic way predates the 90s.
- jerry1979 7y agoCassette Futurism for the '80s. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CassetteFuturism
- stryan 7y agoVaporwave, despite using a lot of 80s samples, is generally more associated with the 90s. Vaporwave is all about the simultaneous apex and decline of mall culture, consumer excess in optimism of the post-Cold War, and early WWW aesthetic. 70s/80s would be Cassette Futurism and Sythwave.