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> born in 2006 not to be pedantic, but how do you miss something you never experienced to begin with?
by mexicocitinluez 2y ago
> born in 2006
not to be pedantic, but how do you miss something you never experienced to begin with?
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- atlantic 2y agoWhen you miss something, you're not referring to the original experience, but to a memory of an experience. Memories being mental artifacts, it's perfectly feasible to miss an imagined experience. Hence the current wave of nostalgia for the Roman empire.
- debugnik 2y agoI read miss here as "failed to be on time for", not as "long for". They specifically say "I wish I was around when [...]"
- vegadw 2y agoI, born in '98, wrote something about being "nostalgic" for the 80's : https://opguides.info/posts/xx80/ https://opguides.info/posts/xx80/
- ocean_moist 2y agoLike I literally missed out on that time period, like how you could miss a class or meeting.
- f30e3dfed1c9 2y agoYou're reading the title wrong. He means "I wish I hadn't missed out on the '90s-00s internet," that is, that he had been around to experience it.