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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

How the Internet Consumes Nostalgia

We've been busily populating the World Wide Web with everything new under the sun, but the time has come to start retrieving the old, too.
BuzzFeed's new nostalgia vertical, the retro-styled and -named Rewind, is reaching back to bring the past to the present, even declaring September "Nostalgia Month." (They've done this for a while, but there's a whole vertical for it now, your one-stop shop for all nostalgic needs.)
A look at what's being posted provides plenty of old-school-ish eye candy, ranging from the unspirational "Get Ready to Feel Old" to a piece on folks who sold their faces to advertise, via tattoo, companies that no longer exist (oops).

Read on: Eat the Past: How the Internet Consumes Nostalgia - Entertainment - The Atlantic Wire