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steampunk
thumb|upright|Original illustration of Jules Verne's Nautilus engine room
cathode ray tube
vacuum tube that can show moving pictures, vector graphics, or lines
rockabilly
Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music. It dates back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South. As a genre, it blends the sound of Western musical styles such as country with that of rhythm and blues, leading to what is considered "classic" rock and roll. Some have also described it as a blend of bluegrass with rock and roll. The term "rockabilly" itself is a portmanteau of "rock" (from "rock 'n' roll") and "hillbilly", the latter a reference to the country music (often called "hillbilly music" in the 1940s and 1950s) that contributed strongly to t
The Little Mole
Czech animated short film series
Ostalgie
thumb|GDR T-shirts, for sale in Berlin in 2004 thumb|right|Soviet and GDR Memorabilia for sale in Berlin in 2006 thumb|right|Jägerschnitzel, a popular East German cuisine item In German culture, Ostalgie () is nostalgia for aspects of life in Communist East Germany. It is a portmanteau of the German words Ost (east) and Nostalgie (nostalgia). Its anglicised equivalent, ostalgia (rhyming with "nostalgia"), is also sometimes used. Another term for the phenomenon is GDR nostalgia ().
The Amazing Digital Circus
The Amazing Digital Circus is an Australian independent adult animated web series created, written, and directed by Gooseworx and produced by Glitch Productions. The series follows a group of humans trapped inside a circus-themed virtual reality simulation, where they struggle with an erratic artificial intelligence and personal traumas. Gooseworx pitched the series to Glitch, inspired by the primitive computer-generated imagery of the 1990s, as well as the short story "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison.
synthwave
Synthwave (also called retrowave, or futuresynth) is an electronic music microgenre that is based predominantly on the music associated with the soundtracks of action, science fiction, and horror films of the 1970s and 1980s. Other influences are drawn from the decade's art and video games. Synthwave musicians often espouse nostalgia for 1980s culture and attempt to capture the era's atmosphere and celebrate it.
retro style
style that is consciously derivative or imitative of trends, music, modes, fashions, or attitudes of the past
retrofuturism
thumb|upright=1|Retrofuturistic depiction of a flying locomotive, visually based on the Nebraska Zephyr, in a [[dieselpunk style reminiscent of the early 1940s]] thumb|Proposed high-speed ocean express ("Ozeanreise im Jahre 2.000") as in the year 2000, 1931 (Hamburg - New York in 40 hours) thumb|Hotel on tracks ("Reisehotel") as in the year 2000, work of 1898 thumb|An Art Deco [[flying wing circa the jet age ]]
Yugo-nostalgia
thumb|Yugoslav symbols during a carnival in Ptuj, Slovenia, in 2013 thumb|Yugoslav flag on a street in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, in 2009
Teddy Boy
member of a British subculture
nostalgia for the Soviet Union
retrospective fondness for USSR
retrogaming
playing or collecting older video and computer games
chillwave
Chillwave is a music microgenre that emerged in the late 2000s. It is characterized by evoking the popular music of the late 1970s and early 1980s while engaging with notions of memory and nostalgia. Common features include a faded or dreamy retro pop sound, escapist lyrics (frequent topics include the beach or summer), psychedelic or lo-fi aesthetics, mellow vocals, slow-to-moderate tempos, effects processing (especially reverb), and vintage synthesizers.
dieselpunk
thumb|alt=noir image.|An example of dieselpunk artDieselpunk is a retrofuturistic subgenre of science fiction similar to steampunk or cyberpunk that combines the aesthetics of the diesel-based technology of the interwar period through to the 1950s with retro-futuristic technology and postmodern sensibilities. Coined in 2001 by game designer Lewis Pollak to describe his tabletop role-playing game Children of the Sun, the term has since been applied to a variety of visual art, music, motion pictures, fiction, and engineering.
Mega Drive Mini
dedicated video game console
Shibuya-kei
is a microgenre of pop music or a general aesthetic that flourished in Japan in the mid-to-late 1990s. The music genre is distinguished by a "cut-and-paste" approach that was inspired by the kitsch, fusion, and artifice from certain music styles of the past. The most common reference points were 1960s culture and Western pop music, especially the work of Burt Bacharach, Brian Wilson, Phil Spector, and Serge Gainsbourg.
Sovietwave
Sovietwave (also styled Soviet wave or Soviet-wave) is a subgenre of synthwave music and accompanying Internet aesthetic which originates from the former Soviet Union, primarily Russia. It is characterized by an emphasis on the technology and culture of the Soviet Union, such as the Soviet space program and retrofuturistic Soviet era architecture and art, and is an expression of nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Linguist Maria Engström described Sovietwave as the post-Soviet counterpart to vaporwave, evoking a similar nostalgic critique of the "contemporary collapse of futurity" and longing for
Johnny Rockets
American restaurant chain
communist nostalgia
nostalgia in various post-communist states of Central and Eastern Europe and Russia for the prior Communist states
Japanese cyberpunk
subgenre of science fiction produced in the East Asian country
TurboGrafx-16 Mini
dedicated home video game console
chamber pop
subgenre of indie pop or indie rock
hypnagogic pop
music genre, derivation of neo-psychedelia and pop music
vintage
generally refers to any artificial object or objects that are representative of or dating from an earlier period of time
nostalgia for the Polish People's Republic
a social phenomenon
Tales from the Loop
tabletop role-playing game (2017)