If you can historically re-enact the 1890s, can you do the 1990s? Where does it end?

  • zxqwas@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    There is no hard line, just what you yourself would feel silly reenacting.

    So just brush the dust off that office beige PC and CRT monitor and have a lan party with your friends.

    • planish@sh.itjust.worksOP
      1·
      4 months ago

      I feel like it would be kind of silly to reenact, like, the 1980s. Or, even though it was hugely historical, the Vietnam War. It was terrible and people who had to deal with it are still alive; what would be the point of trying to show people what it was like? Do people really have trouble imagining what life was like in the 1980s? Wasn’t it basically like now, unlike, say, the 1890s?

      • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works
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        4 months ago

        Destroy smartphones and limit internet access to universities and youd get back to the 1980s pretty quick.

        Also downgrade the ram in your pc (which you likely wouldnt own if you weren’t a nerd) to 512kb.

        And do cocaine.

  • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
    2·
    4 months ago

    If we’re talking re-enacting the way the folks who wear historish costumes and blank-fire muskets at each other mean it, then the cutoff is “whatever the last war was fought locally and then ended.”

    If you mean it the way the folks who wear even sillier costumes, drink, and walk around with swords mean it, then the cutoff is “whenever the clothes we want to wear were last plausibly worn.”

    If you mean it the way a TV reporter, producer, or academic might mean it, however, there’s no cutoff beyond “isn’t happening now.”. (There’s a famous story about someone who won the lottery after playing on a whim, was egged on by a reporter to re-enact buying the ticket, and won again.)