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Technological Nostalgia AKA Technostalgia [related: Cyber-nostalgia]
The concept that active and direct technological engagement throughout the full cycle of pubescence engenders lifelong
feelings of connection, comfort, and, at times, sexual attraction to certain contemporary products. Such products can
be thought to include: video games, video game avatars (
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), car interiors
(esp. burgundy),
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with hollow patterns, polaroid photographs, certain musical media (i.e. cassettes),
winamp
skins, phones with cords
(esp. car phones),
radioshack
, and
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. Cyber-nostalgia, a sister concept, refers more
specifically to connection with meta-objects and platforms indigenous to the ethereal and non-spatial digital
internet
.
Ref: F., Claire. The Machines that Make Us (1992)
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