The Retroactive Revival: What's Driving Our Fervent '90s Nostalgia? The internet has a peculiar affinity for revisiting past glories, and few decades have received as much nostalgia fueled scrutiny as the 1990s.
This current fixation on the '90s is fixated on technology, particularly the perceived lack thereof.
Social media platforms are flooded with throwbacks to a bygone era when dial up connections were the norm, AOL was king, and high speed internet was but a distant dream.