If any of this sounds familiar—it’s because it should be. Bored Panda has covered this lovely page on numerous occasions (occasion one, occasion two, and occasion three just to name a few).
Essentially, it’s a page that celebrates some of the greatest decades of the last century through memes and throwbacks in picture form.
I Love Nostalgia is the brainchild of one Ian Wright who posted ‘80s content on the regular until it got a bigger reaction than usual. The response from the internet was thrilling and thus the page was born.
The page features a variety of content—memes, queries, quizzes and the like, both in picture and video form.
We reached out to the man behind the page, Ian Wright, to learn more about his take on the epic decades of the past century as well as nostalgia and pretty much everything in between.
Considering how history can be cyclical with fads and trends making comebacks, we asked Ian if these are temporary throwbacks or are they here to stay. And, well, it depends.
“I will forever be biased about the ‘80s, but there does seem to be something quite special about them,” elaborated Ian. “I remember a bit of a fad for the ‘70s, but it didn’t really last long. I gauge this by looking at fashion, TV, movies and bars.”
“We didn’t seem to get a big ‘60s revival at all, we had a small ‘70s revival and then the ‘80s revival started roughly in the 2000s and it just keeps going and going.”
He continued: “They keep trying to do the ‘90s but it’s not sticking. The noughties will soon be ready for a revival but again I don’t think it is special enough. There’s something clearly special about the ‘80s.”
“[The ‘80s are] not just nostalgic to some, but it is also inviting and magical to future generations. I was watching a YouTube video the other day about the Tetris video game world champions and they were mostly kids.”
For context, the ‘80s were a period of neon style and fashion with bold and vibrant colors. It also gave rise to a good number of blockbuster movies and pop culture things like Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Back to the Future and the like.
Tech also took a huge leap with the Apple Macintosh and IBM taking over the personal computing market, all the while video game consoles like Atari and the NES were responsible for a myriad of core memories.
