The Nostalgia Conundrum
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I get viscerally irritated when anyone starts in about the good old days. And on the surface, this makes no sense.
My entire house is a shrine to retro crap. I’ve been staunchly defending (and devoting treasure and space to) physical media since my first friends ditched their CD collections for Limewire and Napster. I save VHS movies, play vintage video games, and code on 40-year-old computers. I comb through cookbooks older than my dad for recipes to try.
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